» Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:53 am OK, but the entire point of my reply was not that, but the fact that you are saying it's "assured" that snow/rain won't fall through overhangs outside, JUST because of what you've seen about snow accumulation. There is more than one component to a weather system in-game. The only thing described so far has been what it looks like on the ground. Just because the snow that forms on an overhang looks good doesn't mean it got that way by blocking the snow you see in the air. It's because it's a simple pixel shader, and the snow you see in the air is a bunch of 2D particles that try to approximate something *extremely* complex like fluid dynamics, with very few actual physical inputs. Maybe at most Skyrim will have wind speed and direction inputs for their snow (in the air) system.
But still, despite my skepticism and critical thinking skills, I do remain hopeful that they have an entire snow system as good or better than that in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-Ba7KXX5w .. I don't know if that game has any overhang-type areas though to see if snow goes through it, they may not have solved that issue either.
But still, despite my skepticism and critical thinking skills, I do remain hopeful that they have an entire snow system as good or better than that in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS-Ba7KXX5w .. I don't know if that game has any overhang-type areas though to see if snow goes through it, they may not have solved that issue either.
I said almost assuredly.
Yes, it doesn't say particles won't fall through, but since Bethesda knows their technical deficiencies and want to change whatever looks horrible, there's a very good bet Bethesda has solved the issue.
