Wind simulation

[Sneakson 1]

Wind would be nice... I wouldn't even mind some audiovisual effects related to wind. Blurry vision (unless you wear goggles, which most people do), sniffing...

[maturin 12]

Sniping is stupidly easy without wind.

[white 1]

Sniping is stupidly easy without wind.

one could argue is pretty close to how it works in bf.... let the torches come.

let me just put this here...

[artemas 1]

an attractive way of providing a wind indicator is throwing some particle effects into the game that blow around, like leaves or tufts of grass. The stronger the wind the more of them there are, with little wind, few or none. Plenty of other games do this to add to ambiance, and an especially pretty example exists in Bad Company 2 what with the blowing sand or snow.

[metalcraze 290]

ACE mod has proven time and again that wind simulation is possible in ArmA and only improves firefights extending them, even making sniping require experience and skill - and all that without the need to change AI in-engine. ArmA3 has to have it.

an attractive way of providing a wind indicator is throwing some particle effects into the game that blow around, like leaves or tufts of grass. The stronger the wind the more of them there are, with little wind, few or none. Plenty of other games do this to add to ambiance, and an especially pretty example exists in Bad Company 2 what with the blowing sand or snow.

There's all that already incl. wind direction and power, even wind gusts since A3 - wind just doesn't affect bullets.

[maturin 12]

Just do it, BI, even if only for sniper-type weapons. Then the modders will happily expand it to the last pistol round and grenade.

[zooloo75 834]

ACE mod has proven time and again that wind simulation is possible in ArmA and only improves firefights extending them, even making sniping require experience and skill - and all that without the need to change AI in-engine. ArmA3 has to have it.

There's all that already incl. wind direction and power, even wind gusts since A3 - wind just doesn't affect bullets.

It's not only possible, but very easy to make. I understand if BIS doesn't want to put it in - it gives us (the modders/users) the chance to make our own systems for this the way we want it.

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?153076-Wind-Simulation-on-bullets-Script

[Pulverizer 1]

It's trivial to make "wind simulation" wrong but extremely difficult to do right. So keep it to mods.

[maturin 12]

There's nothing difficult about it. You just watched modders do it twice.

And almost without exception, whatever modders can do is ten times easier for the people who have the source code at their fingertips. We do everything with bailing wire and ducktape at the moment.

The only problem with ACE windage, for example, is the lack of a simple server-side variable for controlling like all other weather. That and the understandable exemption for AI.

Edited April 21, 2013 by maturin

[Bee8190 10]

Getting accurate shots at people at 500m or even lot more is still ridiculously easy and I'm far from good shot. This can really ruin any MP game if the folk knows at least the basics of how to shoot guns in arma. If it's not so hard to implement as posts above suggest, I honestly have no idea what are we waiting for BI