Seasonal plants

[ralphwiggum 6]

I was wondering if some addon maker could verify whether this is a possibility or not.

Since there are 4 seasons(or 2 in Southern California, many more if you are from a tribe of Aborigines), I was wondering if there can be an addon that recieves the value of the mission, and use predefined model with respect to the time/season.

for example, some trees in winter have no leaves, but that same tree could have leaves in rest of the seasons. this could be done by having a little script that takes a value of mission time/date and use appropriate model.

[RED 0]

I believe that it should be possible if you use the same method as the BAS rangers armpatch and set the texture (I may be way off though), this would be a lot of work though.

RED

[edc 0]

If you could do that, I wonder if you could change the ground textures, to like snow in the winter.

[Schoeler 0]

You ought to place this as an OFP2 suggestion.

[waffendennis 0]

Was this not implented by bis? i mean : when its Decemeber some trees turn in Crhistmas trees? or was it and addons? but any way you can try it on that way

[BraTTy 0]

Absolutely Ralph.. you just would need some trees with the leaves named as a hidden selection, either to hide them at certain times or even change their colors.

Its absolutely fairly easy possible

[joltan 0]

Would ai be able to see trough the leaves even if they were visible? Or would it be the other way around - i.e. the ai would not be able to see through the leaves, even if they were turned off (i.e. not visible to players)?

[BraTTy 0]

Not sure,I know you can animate geometry ,but that would be animating view geometry,should be possible too

[colonel_klink 0]

Be also cool to have trees that when placed at a certain height above sea level.. say above the snowline that the trees have snow on them automatically.

[Supah 0]

Well it would seem possible remembering the christmas trees in original OFP

[PFC_Mike 2]

christmas trees? Someone want to explain the whole story?

[Koolkid101 0]

Ha, its offtopic but in vermont theres only 1 season, WINTER!

[colonel_klink 0]

christmas trees? Someone want to explain the whole story?

Ok when OFP first came out some trees on one(?) of the islands turned to christmas trees around 25th December.. They were complete with presents as well.

[SFG 1]

Kolgujev

[Heatseeker 0]

christmas trees? Someone want to explain the whole story?

It came with patch 1.46 has a christmas present from bis (i think ), definatly a nice request to put on OPF2 sugestion.

How come i never have good ideas like this one .

[PFC_Mike 2]

maybe I'll boot up CWC again...

SFG i like having my brain on drugs. This is sort of OT but many years ago there was a (now defunct) PC games mag called "PC Accelerator" or something like that. Anyway, they had an article on playing racing games while drunk. The highlight was playing a drivers-ed sim.

that's all

[Guest]

It would be possible to do for sure. Only slight point of contention would be time of year....I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say I bet you were thinking Northern Hemisphere?

[WhoCares 0]

Can't you give the island longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates? I know one of them is used for the calculation of the tides, so you could use the latitudinal information to differ between the hemispheres. However, as islands usually don't change their positions, it is up to the designer, to define whether the trees have foliage in June or Dezember...

[BraTTy 0]

I believe you can set your computer clock to Dec 25th and still see the Christmas trees

[ralphwiggum 6]

OT: The chrismas trees were introduced with 1.30 patch, IIRC. it's an easter egg that shows up everywhere on 3 islands(Malden, Everon, Kolgujev)

I'll take a wild stab in the dark and say I bet you were thinking Northern Hemisphere?

yes sorry for forgetting that there were members from down under.

hmm.. since I don't know how to use O2, maybe someone interested can make it?