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#3264006 - 04/08/11 03:17 PM Clouds...So can you...??  
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...Actually have a cloudy day/ rain, etc? Or is COD like living in Stepford?

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#3264036 - 04/08/11 03:49 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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The highest setting in the FMB is "medium clouds". No heavy clouds, no rain, no thunderstorms.

Not sure what the "weather-map" is supposed to do - even the FMB warns to use it at your own risk .. smile When I activate it, all I'm getting is a grey blob where the map used to be. *shrug*


Anyway: Here are some pics I took with clouds set to medium:







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#3264046 - 04/08/11 03:59 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Thanks for the pics sascha smile

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When I activate it, all I'm getting is a grey blob where the map used to be. *shrug*


Say...That's not the famous British fog, is it? biggrin

Will the game actually run with the advanced weather switched on?

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#3264050 - 04/08/11 04:03 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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You know: I haven't tried it yet, since there doesn't seem to be anything I can *do* to the dynamic weather map in the FMB. Tried LMB, RMB, scrolling, zooming. The screen just didn't budge.. so I switched it back off. But I'll give it a try during my next hop ... I promise.. biggrin


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#3264162 - 04/08/11 05:42 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Not sure what the "weather-map" is supposed to do - even the FMB warns to use it at your own risk

I'm getting a Force 12 hurricane centred on Dover did maelstroms exist in August 1940 or has someone pinched the plug again

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#3264186 - 04/08/11 06:02 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Seeing that in the FMB bodes well that one day we will see dynamic weather. I just don't think it's that high of a priority right now though.

#3264244 - 04/08/11 06:42 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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In the FMB object browser there's a category called "local weather". You can actually set up titanic clouds towering up high ... but don't try to set them to dynamic, that crashed my game. scuse_me


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#3264248 - 04/08/11 06:45 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: csThor]  
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Originally Posted By: csThor
In the FMB object browser there's a category called "local weather". You can actually set up titanic clouds towering up high ... but don't try to set them to dynamic, that crashed my game. scuse_me


Would love to see that!!! Any chance of a screen grab posted here? smile


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#3264259 - 04/08/11 06:52 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Aahhh... so these formations are treated as objects? Hmm.. no wonder I didn't find them... smile


EDIT: Just tried to get me some bad weather into the mission, but so far: no luck.

Seems a bit bugged anyway. The only item I could select was "thunder" (prolly thunderstorm). If I set the object to anything else ("overcast", "overcast with breaks") it'd would simply revert to "thunder". I placed one thunderstorm right on top of my plane.




And this is what happened in the mission:



Checked all around and below me on external view, but it was blue skies and a few fluffy white clouds as far as the virtual eye could see ...



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#3264260 - 04/08/11 06:53 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Very crude, very quick ... there's a lot to experiment and I guess there are a lot better effects possible. That cloud thingy here reaches up from 250m to at least 5000m.


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#3264264 - 04/08/11 06:55 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Looks like the onset of doom frown

#3264267 - 04/08/11 06:57 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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I haven't seen anyone else mention it, but I'm sure I had lightnening during one mission I did! It's a question, any one else seen it?

#3264269 - 04/08/11 06:58 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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There is also an object "Thunderstorm" in the local weather category.


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#3264282 - 04/08/11 07:05 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Huh? How did you do that? See my last post for my experience.. smile


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#3264283 - 04/08/11 07:06 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: csThor]  
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Thank you muchly!!!!!

Hopefully not too much of a hit on frame rate. Probably too much to ask for at this early stage, but can the enemy AI "see" you in the clouds, or can you lose him/them?

Regardsless, the potential is there, including multiplayer (anyone remember Fighter Duel?)


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#3264288 - 04/08/11 07:10 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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It seems as if right now only one such object in a limited area works (that is very much a guess!) ... the RS and RB line are about dimensions, H is for altitude (lowest) and then there's a second tab with more settings (which are garbled in my german installation BTW) including such things as "Layers" and a number of gust settings.


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#3264325 - 04/08/11 07:45 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: Biggs]  
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Thanks Thor! That did the trick.


Put some clouds in there, 5000 wide, 5000 long, 5000 high. Looked kinda funny and localized because of the dimensions..


But: Flying through there for too long, your canopy will completely ice over, robbing you pretty much of all visual reference. Very disorienting .. as I guess it should be.. smile


FPS-hit was noticable (as you can see from the counter), but it wasn't as bad as it looks in the shots. After I disabled my mirror, it was pretty much flyable .. even with 30 LW planes at about 4km of me. My wingmen seemed to have trouble keeping up once I entered the clouds. At least some of them didn't maintain their usual tight formation.









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#3264490 - 04/08/11 10:40 PM Re: Clouds...So can you...?? [Re: sascha]  
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Great screenshots!

By any chance, could you try leading a couple of enemy fighters into the soup to see if they still engage you or --hopefully--lose you?

Thanks so much -April 19 seems a long way off yet!

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