Enhancing the time/weather system.

Started by Delerak, February 12, 2003, 06:55:58 AM

I thought of this just now so I am going to post it now.

I think this would bring a huge realism imagery to the MUD which it sort of has in the department of weather and time.  Here is what I was thinking.

I'm sitting in pitch blackness in a plain of grass, now everyone knows that before a dawn comes, even if there is no moon, the sky becomes a lighter shade and you aren't sitting in absolute pitch blackness like its midnight or something.  So here is what I think might be cool.

weather
It is a cool night.
The sky is clear.
A cool breeze blows from the east.

It is before dawn..this is what it would show..

It is a cool night.
The sky is clear.
The sun is currently rising in the east, filling the horizon with a rosy glow.
A cool breeze blows from the east.

Now what this would do is give you light as if there was a moon out, since dawn is coming close, maybe it wouldn't happen right after Late at night, but more like a script and be triggered 4-5 minutes before the actual Rising of the Sun in the east message.

The same would apply for when it gets darker, instead of darkness springing up all of a sudden, it would be cool if it slowly happened from late afternoon to dusk to late at night.  

-Danny