madness wrote:It's winter over here in Australia which is one great thing that wants me to suggest better weather effects for the next driver game, especially rain. I've been walking home watching the cars drive/skid straight through the water, kinda makes me feel like trying a few burnouts in the water. But just watching the cars and rain together seems like such a great experience for the player especially when floods our caused by too much rain it would be amazing to drive right through it watching it splash onto the pedestrians and the cars aside.
I know that this won’t be achieved all that well this generation (ps3 generation) due to the limitation of cpu. However it is still possible maybe not as good as the effects I’m talking about but close enough.
This would be awesome... Driving through a flooded city with water halfway up the wheels would be fun. So would driving a boat down the main street
I havent seen a game pull of realistic snow that settles on the ground either.
Sedans wrote:
BTW i always wanted to go to austrailia- is it nice?
Yes, but New Zealand's better
:P:P
If you ever get the chance it's worth visiting both.
Sedans wrote:madness wrote:It's winter over here in Australia which is one great thing that wants me to suggest better weather effects for the next driver game, especially rain. I've been walking home watching the cars drive/skid straight through the water, kinda makes me feel like trying a few burnouts in the water. But just watching the cars and rain together seems like such a great experience for the player especially when floods our caused by too much rain it would be amazing to drive right through it watching it splash onto the pedestrians and the cars aside.
I know that this won’t be achieved all that well this generation (ps3 generation) due to the limitation of cpu. However it is still possible maybe not as good as the effects I’m talking about but close enough.
Wait! wait! its winter?! What is your ddate, madness? today its July, 8, 2007 in New Orleans, Louisiana and at around 98 degrees- its summer.
Winter, i know there are different timezones but is it that different?
I'm amazed that you've never learned that. (I am not insulting you, although I may be insulting the American schooling system).
Basically, the way the Earth is tilted on its orbit means that for half of the year the northern hemisphere is more exposed to the suns rays (northern hemispher summer, southern hemispher winter), and the other half the southern hemispher is more exposed to the suns rays (sthn summer, nthrn winter).
Hence I have christmas at the beach in the sun, and you have it in the cold and snow (well actually i think you are too close to the equator for that, but thats not the point).
This also means that in summer in antarctica and the arctic it never gets dark, and in winter it never gets light.
Look at this animated diagram, it shows how the tilt makes the northern and southern hemisphers get exposed to the sun:
http://www.classzone.com/books/earth_sc ... pter_no=04
This explains it in depth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasons