Cloudy days in-game

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#1

Hello developers,

I’m looking to create a sunny/cloudy day system, however I want to make it the best system possible. I need the clouds to fade in and out as the weather variable rises and falls.

My ideal solution would be some kind of way to blend between a sunny skybox and a cloudy skybox. If that can’t happen, I could perhaps use cloud meshes in some ways, but I’m not sure what’s the best way to do it. Have clouds roll in? Have a set of static clouds become opaque?

If you have some suggestions on how to execute this, please reply below!

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#2

I would use mesh parts for something like this.

You could then make some sort of table like so…

local WeatherSettings = {
	['Stormy'] = 10 -- Something to determine how many clouds or the transparency of these clouds.
};

return WeatherSettings

Then you could just fade in the clouds based off what type of weather condition it is.

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#3

I think it’d be much less obtrusive if the cloud meshes slowly faded in.

What Jailbreak does is just make cloud meshes fade in, and I think play with the ambience settings.

You can’t procedurally generate skyboxes, so you will probably need to make a custom skybox if you want to have a cloudy skybox fade in.

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