[CF-Devel] New weather stuff, and bigmap thoughts

[Tim Rightnour]

On 29-Oct-02 Todd Mitchell wrote:
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      I think this would work well - certain arches could be created to animate
     
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      this way (tree with buds, tree with leaves, tree with bare branches, tree
     
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      with snow) or for the ground (puddles, mud, snow, flowers) and then it would
     
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      be easy for map makers to use them in their maps (or if all is well, to redo
     
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      some of the existing arches to use weather animation.)
     
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      I think some of this kind of graphic is already available with a bit of
     
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      modification.
     
     
I'm no artist.. but it seems to me like it might be easier to make a graphic
that could be placed on top of an existing one.  Say for example we wanted
fruit on a tree.  We could make a fruit image, and when placed on top of the
tree, it would appear like there was fruit on it.  Theoretically, a player
could pick that fruit.

My ideal system is that based on the weather over a period of time in a spot,
certain trees would produce certain fruit.  Like if the climate is just right,
the trees might be apple trees.  Players could pick the apples. Ideally, some
trees would be ultra-rare, and would provide things that could be used in
alchemy.  Same with herbs, flowers, mushrooms, etc.
 
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      BTW, does the weather machine send messages to the client?  ('it is
     
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      raining.', 'it is very windy') - this alone does add to the game since
     
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      imagination is pretty powerful tool.
     
     
Not yet.  It will, like the "it's lighter, darker" stuff.. but I haven't
written it yet.  I didn't mention it, because it really has no effect on the
game in that sense.

BTW.. I've been fiddling with your snow stuff.. I like the snow images.. I'm
working on trying to get them to work with my system.  Haven't quite figured
out how to melt them though. :)  Great work on those though.

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