Aurora Borealis? : V

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:22 am

Living in the Swedish north has made me very fond of them!

Id' LOVE to see it in TES V!

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:52 am

This would be nice, especialy if it were dinamic

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:18 am

I really wouldn't care, I mean yeh it would look cool, but thats kinda it

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:39 am

I'd say yes, if only for the aesthetic value. What good is having a largely snowy and northern terrain if the sky isn't lit up by one of the most magnificent things you could see in those types of places?

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:34 pm

Tracking deer across a snowy plain, with beautiful lights in the night sky? SIGN ME UP

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:41 pm

I vote yes. I think that would look kewl as long as you don't see them all the time..

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:39 am

Sure why not, as long as it doesn't look tacky.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:07 pm

Yes. It doesn't even have to be because of a huge electromagnetic vortex and photons. It could be something to do with Magnus, or the et'ada and all that cool TES cosmology-magic stuff.

More weather effects! Rainbows, circumhorizontal arcs, in-cloud lightening, etc.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:25 pm

Yes. It doesn't even have to be because of a huge electromagnetic vortex and photons. It could be something to do with Magnus, or the et'ada and all that cool TES cosmology-magic stuff.

More weather effects! Rainbows, circumhorizontal arcs, in-cloud lightening, etc.

Or even real lightning?

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:28 pm

It's difficult to photograph it much less develop it and make it look real.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:59 pm

It's difficult to photograph it much less develop it and make it look real.

Photography has nothing to do with developing it in game... Just because it's hard to photograph lightning does not mean it is hard to make real looking lightning in a game.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:34 am

Living in the Swedish north has made me very fond of them!

Id' LOVE to see it in TES V!

I'd love it. I'm not as far north as Sweden (though I have Swedish ancestry!), but we've seen them on a rare occasion here in Minnesota. They're really quite magical.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:14 pm

Photography has nothing to do with developing it in game... Just because it's hard to photograph lightning does not mean it is hard to make real looking lightning in a game.

I wasn't trying to say that it does but capturing in by video is not to see it. I am saying even standing there and watching it one can't really capture the awe of the lights. I see them most clear nights in winter and they can't be reproduced by any method and that is what I was trying to say.

Can't be videoed, photographed, coded, or in any way seen any way but by person to really visualize the essence of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8THGqrjUDGI animating it in the beginning of the video, but it doesn't come close to the real deal.

And for me, if it's not right it will bother me.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:56 pm

Sure why not. It would be pretty... And well quite often i did like staring at the sky. At least in morrowind.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 12:58 pm

Can't be videoed, photographed, coded, or in any way seen any way but by person to really visualize the essence of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8THGqrjUDGI animating it in the beginning of the video, but it doesn't come close to the real deal.

Thank you for linking the most incredibly badass thing I have seen all day.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:41 am

I vote YES! but if they can't then comets will be a good alternative.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:42 am

Oooh yes please. I foresee some awesome screenshots coming as a result.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:01 pm

I would like to see them, but not all the time, and not every night.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:56 pm

It would be nice, but Skyrim is not the northern most place in the world, not even close, it is just the most so in Tamriel.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:26 am

Sure why not. It would be pretty... And well quite often i did like staring at the sky. At least in morrowind.

You are not alone my freind.

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:50 pm

not every night, maybe once a week or more

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:08 am

I love to just stare at the night sky sometimes in Oblivion, while Auriel's Ascension is playing...

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 2:14 pm

While I'm sure it would look cool, and I admit I don't know all the science behind it, is Skyrim far enough North? Isn't there an entire continent further to the north of Skyrim?

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 1:52 pm

While I'm sure it would look cool, and I admit I don't know all the science behind it, is Skyrim far enough North? Isn't there an entire continent further to the north of Skyrim?

Yes

» Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:39 am

This would be very cool.

If not in the game, then perhaps as a mod?