Rain effects

It sounds like a amazing mod.
Do you plan on making it a mod when the games comes out?

 

I love all things rain, so I really love this, TC.

I really like rain. Like a lot. Like to weird points. Really weird points. You don't wanna know. But I'll tell you anyway

 

Probably not, as I've said; I have no issues with how it looks now. But we'll see

 

That looks amazing!
So much better than the original, not that the original was bad either.

 

Wow, very nice!
I haven't really thought of that.

But I think that it would look great only in some biomes. I'd like to see a few others without the mist, it would give the idea of a clean, pretty field (for example).

Either way, I hope the devs see this

 

Must go into suggestions.

 

Rain is my favorite kind of weather. This seriously needs to exist.

 

That looks great! Hopefully if they revisit the rain effects it'll look something like this.

 

wow awesome.
devs should really see this

 

So do I! I do mention it on my suggestion thread (see OP), so I'm not sure if I should make a new suggestion or tell people to up-vote the existing one. It feels pretty lacking to make a suggestion just for one little detail

 

Every suggestion counts, but maybe asking/having a moderator to edit your existing suggestion with any additional details may be the best option.

 

I can edit it myself, np. It's just that it already has that suggestion in it, it's just not the main feature being suggested

 

Yeah, I realized that right after posting, but was too lazy to edit it

Well, I just hope this gets the devs attention

 

My main thought regarding the rain effects seen thus far is the lack of BACKGROUND related effects. I would like to see clouds build in the background. The lighting diminish accordingly as the clouds darken the sky. The rain begin and end in a realistic fashion (rather than simply go from no rain to suddenly raining without transition). I would also like lightning effects to be fine tuned (most previous streams showing lightning show much too frenzied lightning even while it appears only a gentle rain is falling).

There should be varying intensities of rainfall from a gentle sprinkle (the sun may still be shining during these and a rainbow might appear in the sky) to savage downpours with severe lightning and possibly hail as well.

And why not make weather have more than simply a visual impact? It would be best if, during severe downpours, flooding could occur. And during a blizzard, snow blocks could appear and build up on the exposed terrain (perhaps limited to about 4 blocks total so the world wouldn't be ruined by being buried in snow blocks).

I love weather effects in games and hope they are well implemented in Starbound!

 

True, that'd also add to the atmosphere. Seeing as how it wasn't that long ago they started playing with different lighting effects depending on day/night as well as color of- and distance to the planet's sun, it's something they probably could add with very little effort (and might have planned already).

I think change in the terrain would be pretty interesting too, a thin snow blanket cover your house while it snows etc. Or perhaps small bodies of water form if there's a 1x1 hole somewhere on the ground. Have to be careful though, not many people would like nature to mess with your creations!

 

I think what they have works for a light rain (maybe a bit much lightning)...

 

I just want to see lightning strike in the foreground and not just in the background. It should have potential to hit tree and players and enemies, and set the ground or tress on fire. Yeah, that would be awesome.