Yeah good point. Maybe not having weather monitors from real places but more of a virtual LFS world, where the weather repeats every 30 days or something with some randomness.

As for the day/night, yes definately. i dont' want to be racing South City in the dark all the time

This can only be an option. You could place any track to any location you like. For example there would be many Blackwood servers, each of them would have different locations, Europe, Japane, USA etc. Then the racers could pick any location they like, based on the weather conditions of different locations etc. Of course there would also be 24/7 shiny, no wind servers just like now. So the racers could choose any conditions they like, either virtual 24/7 shiny/cloudy, wind/no wind, or the servers with real locations and weather conditions.

Also leagues could choose a location for an event, say Italy, some place, and on racing time, the real weather from that location would be generated on the server. Including rain, wind direction and velocity. Also the position of the sun, and even the real time pictures can be taken from the location, for example of the sky, and being sent to the server.

We've all got to remember that lfs S2 Alpha is that, Alpha, being the first stable test version of S2, give the developers a break, I'm sure they'll have weather included eventually, afterall, we've still got S2 Beta to look forward to (if lfs keeps to programming traditions and releases a Beta test version) before the final build of S2.

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As for the day/night, yes definately. i dont' want to be racing South City in the dark all the time

Unfortunately you're right. Only spods will be interested in GPS/IP-to-location based weather which sucks, cos I want it

To be realistic, racing would be forbidden in areas where extreme weather was occuring. So if their was a cyclone happening in one part of the world, you wouldn't be able to race there. What about all of those racers who live in snowy environments? Would their servers be down in winter time? Food for thought.

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What about all of those racers who live in snowy environments? Would their servers be down in winter time?

I wasnt thinking in terms of absolute replication of server location's conditions. If that was the case then we'd all be racing in a room with air con running flat out, with an air temperature equivilent to 30+ celsius (presuming most servers are in datacentres).

I was thinking more in terms of hinting to the conditions. If there was snow, we'd get a moderate amount of snow. Of course, server side settings for random, or specified conditions, would have to be there for those who dont like racing with wind / snow / rain.

Lol, I meant "would their racetracks be closed in winter time", I wasn't referring to the room the server was in. A weather report says a blizzard is occurring, then no racing would be possible in a blizzard.

I reckon some of us would give it ago.

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I reckon some of us would give it ago.

Hehe, I reckon you'd be right.

Probably the most influental (never used this word before ) values about the wheather are a) rain b) track and air temperature (and pressure? *) c) wind and d) lighting. The system sound nice, but some people would really suffer from it.


*maybe some track in LFS should have lower air pressure, so that the cars would suffer from this as they would simply produce less power?

I think it's a great idea and wouldn't need to be overly complicated. Someone mentioned 'extra resources to get live weather information'. What resources? Wind speed is 2 figures. A weather chart can be captured in a 256x256 texture and read by the engine. That's all the data that needs to be passed from weather site to server to client regarding the weather conditions.

Of course, getting weather conditions at all (non dynamic) implimented very well should be the first concern, and this a neat after thought.

I've always thought the realtime day/night cycles should be implimentable, though.

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Hehe, I reckon you'd be right.

:doh: Well, it could be fun

Yeah that would be great. I already see the scene. You drive in a league and have your races, let's say, on sundays. The weather forecast says that it could be raining on the weekend in GB. Now your race is on Aston, so you start making a wet weather setup. Sunday comes, and the race starts in rain and then after a few laps it stops and the track is drying. now those who started with dry setups are getting faster and faster, you slower and slower.
now this is the point where the thrill begins: someone closes the gap to you and you are in close combat with him, knowing that you have to fight like a lion to stay in front of him, well you can imagine the scene.
Man that would be thrilling .

I think the whole dynamic, LFSWorld-controlled weather thing would be SO awesome. Allthough IF it were to happen, it would be very far off in the future... but I'd still probably be playing LFS