Weather and clouds

Weather patterns would be cool. I realize this was discussed before, but here is my solution to the "I won't be able to see my base"

1) Rain. Making it rain (no pun intended) in this game would add a nice little feature, especially rain while it is night on your side of the planet. MMMM.

2) Clouds. Should only be visible when zoomed out to the point when the icons disappear. BOOM. Solution right there. Only visible when the icons are gone, and can be switched off in the options.

obvious yes.

won't be in for 1.0, maybe never oficially by uber but doubtless there will be a mod that anybody with half a working brain will use. kinda similarly to KSP.



after reading your post more I have to say your take on clouds is quite naive. you know they can be transparent right? plus clouds are high up in the air, below strat icon height, you'd be below the clouds and above the clouds you'd have strat icons.

Wouldn't clouds get in the way?
You're always viewing the game from a birds-eye perspective, clouds would just obscure things.
Then again, lightning would add in some awesome lighting, so eh, why not. +1

Huh.

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*awkwardly walks away*

did a post about this awhile ago but here are some examples of workable weather:





The only problem is that the Camera angle for Universim is vastly different from PA's camera angel. PA's camera is a lot more of a straight top-down angle which really would abstract good game viewing as the game has it now, you would basically have to continuously zoom in and out to get above and below the clouds.I would also love to see ashes instead of rain falling from lava planets as well as emp electrical storms which knock out certain things for a period of time. Tsunami's would be another weather disaster I'd love to see in PA just for LoLs but highly unlikely but it was very awesome to see in Anno 2070.

Personally, the transparency would bother me. And the icon/cloud height is exactly the effect I am looking for.

exactly. I wouldn't even mind if they wern't. (but I think transparent clouds look better)

Backed alpha tier for that, can't wait to give it a go

I just want clouds.

I don't care about stuff that influences the units.

There are comprehensive threads on this topic which provide many soltions to the challenges of atmospherics. Your 'boom, solution' has been suggested a lot

Could have necroed one of those threads, or read up before posting. Just saying.

I'd like atmospherics. I suggested three different types of cloud:
Low Ground fog and mid-level translucent Air coulds (both interacting with combat/disrupted by units on an aesthetic level; i.e. lit up by explosions and moving if a plane goes through them).
The third level would be high level clouds which only translucently appeared at the Orbital level, turning opaque beyond that.

can we debate on this again.

I'd just like to say that I violently agree with you.

Completely unnecessary in my opinion, this is just a cosmetic nicety that really isn't necessary. There's so much scope for improvement in the game itself, UI tweaks and so on.

@zihuatanejo the look of the planets is kinda weak without any clouds, and now to pull out my trump card : "but the kickstarter video! ....." x)

That argument is so Alpha. ;P

Anyway eh I could see it, but at the same time I see it being really annoying at times. =/

have you read either threads?

we've been over this particular point a thousand times. no it won't be, read the thread.

I read the thread back when it was originally put up, silly tatsu.

I don't want transparent clouds as it'd still annoy me, and an show up distance would have to be so finely tuned that in the end either nobody would see the clouds, or they'd still somehow end up in your face.

no they wouldn't how would it matter at a distance where the icon is bigger than the unit underneath it?????????

Because there are clouds obstructing my view? Haha.

Icons aren't all that matter, I'd also like to be able to see the terrain without a little filter covering it.

Edit: It's like asking someone in an fps game to just spit on their screen a little and play afterwards with all the smudges.