To Adam: Curious questions on weather changes for NASCAR2

Adam or anyone, I dont know if you have answers for these or not, but I thought I'd ask. After running the Demo for many hours now(great demo), I am just curious how you are doing the random weather changes for NASCAR2 now that we have clouds. 1. What kind of weather changes will we see? 2. Will there be any rain conditions on races? 3. Will the clouds above darken at all? From previous snapshots of NASCAR, we saw the sun reflect through the window of one race. It will be exciting to see how you do the time of day to change the sun angles while racing(if this is included in final) This last question is kind of dream question from my comments above but Ill ask it anyway. 4. Will we be able to set the time of day the race is starting? Thanks, Dave Thayer

>After running the Demo for many hours now(great demo), I am just curious >how you are doing the random weather changes for NASCAR2 now that we >have clouds. >1. What kind of weather changes will we see? >2. Will there be any rain conditions on races? >3. Will the clouds above darken at all? Hi Dave...the weather will pretty much work as it did in NASCAR 1. No rain, but the sky texture will change if it is a cloudy day. No moving weather, clouds, etc. Adam Papyrus

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> >After running the Demo for many hours now(great demo), I am just curious > >how you are doing the random weather changes for NASCAR2 now that we > >have clouds. > >1. What kind of weather changes will we see? > >2. Will there be any rain conditions on races? > >3. Will the clouds above darken at all? > Hi Dave...the weather will pretty much work as it did in NASCAR 1. No > rain, but the sky texture will change if it is a cloudy day. No moving > weather, clouds, etc.

That's great!! Actually it requires only some extra textures and a couple of if()s. But still that has been one of the the drawbacks in earlier Papyrus products, ie the lack of attention to detail. It seems that with N2 Papyrus is making a good ol' leap in that department. Keep up the good work, and keep out the bugs!:) -- --- Terje Wold Johansen --- http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjjo/ --- "I am your inferior superior." O.W.

Actually it would take a lot more than that! If you have the cloud cover over in turns 3 and 4, the track temperature at that spot drops, thereby affecting the car's handling in that corner, while the rest of the track is a different temperature. You might have a good race car, then there comes the cloud cover, and wham, you're tight! >--- Terje Wold Johansen >--- http://www.ifi.uio.no/~terjjo/ >--- "I am your inferior superior." O.W.