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

[Todd Mitchell]

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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.
     
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      I'm no artist.. but it seems to me like it might be easier to make a
     
     graphic
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      that could be placed on top of an existing one.  Say for example we wanted
     
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      fruit on a tree.  We could make a fruit image, and when placed on top of
     
     the
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      tree, it would appear like there was fruit on it.  Theoretically, a player
     
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      could pick that fruit.
     
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      My ideal system is that based on the weather over a period of time in a
     
     spot,
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      certain trees would produce certain fruit.  Like if the climate is just
     
     right,
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      the trees might be apple trees.  Players could pick the apples. Ideally,
     
     some
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      trees would be ultra-rare, and would provide things that could be used in
     
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      alchemy.  Same with herbs, flowers, mushrooms, etc.
     
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Not too sure but I would say that both approachs would work well here for
different things.  Some things it would be nice to have a 'weather'
animation just to keep things simple and I believe lighten the load (less
objects) - this would be stuff like forest and ground tiles - buildings,
generic trees,  perhaps.
Some other arches could be placed on top for special objects like the plants
you mention.
This is purely speculation on my part - I have no idea on how this would
play out performance wise.