Clouds?

[katriell]

There's an option in the graphics settings for clouds, and there's no difference whether I check it or uncheck it.

I just noticed these screenshots on ryzom.com...
http://ryzom.com/data/screenshots/800/s ... 150404.jpg
http://ryzom.com/data/screenshots/800/s ... 190404.jpg

Is this what clouds are supposed to look like?

Are they broken, removed, or is my video card just not able to display them?

[alibasil]

hmmm

i have never seen clouds either! maybe i havent got my graphics settings set to display em right!

[rdfall]

I got clouds... not the way they look on those screenshots, but if it's raining i'll see stormy clouds and thunderbolts 'n such

[xenofur]

they removed the clouds sometime after beta and left the settings in, for whatever reason. we have asked and asked again for over a year, but never gotten a proper answer on exactly why it was absolutely necessary to remove them and if there ever was ANY chance of getting them back somehow or why the settings were left in. it's similar to the phoenixes...

(the bitter part of me says it's only to get rid of the old beta players. i know many from that time who LOVED the clouds and only get sad everytime they see the mocking left-overs in the settings.)

as a plea to whichever community manager / dev /whatever might read this:
PLEASE
1. give us an answer to the questions above
OR
2. remove the settings for clouds
OR
3. just give them back

[kaetemi]

Last time I saw an official reply on this question, they said they were only temporary, a little too cartoony and didn't go with the style of ryzom or something like that...

[zerotacg]

3. just give them back

simply the best XD
I LOVE CLOWNS, ehm CLOUDS !!!

[forever]

Why we still have the setting I do not know, it dose nothing now.
I have seen the old and new clouds and think the new ones are much better then the old ones. The old clouds looked like large cotton balls in the sky.

[xenofur]

the new ones are textures that are layered onto a ball which is turning around atys, thus creating the illusion of "clouds".(check the atysghosts video, it makes it PAINFULLY obvious.) the old ones were real dynamic interacting and moving objects, which for all purposes looked and behaved like clouds.

[acridiel]

Last time I saw an official reply on this question, they said they were only temporary, a little too cartoony and didn't go with the style of ryzom or something like that...

Too Cartoony.. Yeah, sure...
Sorry, we´ve got Clouds like that in the real world, I don´t think those are cartoony.
I think the main reason to make them like they are now, is simply performance.
With the added Spell Effects and whatsoever came new after release, there wasn´t enough performance left to do them.
SoR is one of the most graphically brilliant Games around and most demanding to the Hardware too. Just ask my wallet, it sure knows a good tale to tell...
*sigh* I can live with streaky clouds, as long as there are no "death from above" Mobs around. I won´t have to look into the Sky that often.

Yes, it surely IS sad about loosing them, but get over it allready Xeno.

Acridiel

[jamela]

You don't think these clouds could be one of those weather conditions affecting excellent and supreme sources? Perhpas Nevrax removed the graphics but left their influence untouched.