Clouds are moving too fast.
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Clouds on Verdure are incredibly beautiful, but they are moving way too fast. Faster then on the most windy day on Earth IRL. Please make them at least twice slower.
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Yeah, these are almost hurricane force winds driving those clouds.
Yeah, these are almost hurricane force winds driving those clouds.
Do they really move faster than normal clouds, or is it just an optical illusion caused by the low altitude of the clouds and the small size of the planet?
Do they really move faster than normal clouds, or is it just an optical illusion caused by the low altitude of the clouds and the small size of the planet?
It's an excellent question. I did a semi scientific evaluation by putting some GPS markers at the cloud layer staggered 100 meters apart. Using the less scientific eyeball test of when the various clouds passed each waypoint, I estimated that the clouds are moving approximately 150m/s. This is 540km/hr or 335 miles per hour, which is slightly below twice the speed of an average category 5 hurricane wind speed and about equal to the normal travel speed of a small turboprop commercial airplane. Take that wind speed and apply it to the smaller planetary scale as you suggest and the visual effect is actually magnified to make it look even more jarring.
Assuming non storm conditions at what is effectively mountain top elevation (on earth ~10k feet), you're probably looking at 10-20m/s wind speed with peak speeds kicking up to maybe 50m/s, i.e. the current cloud movement speeds are between 3x-15x too fast even if applied to earth scales. Now, having some cloud motion visible because the dynamic clouds are a new toy and you want to show it off, I'd say it's probably okay to have them a little faster than normal, but certainly they need to be slowed down at least 2x-3x where they'd still be seemingly pushed by hurricane force winds.
Side note, if they keep these wind speeds, then man those future windmill wind generators had better be cranking out the power, cause if the wind generator blades are just slowly rotating it's gonna look even weirder. Ideally the game should eventually track the actual wind speed (as part of the power output calculation of the wind turbines) and then the clouds can adjust in speed based on what the wind is actually doing.
It's an excellent question. I did a semi scientific evaluation by putting some GPS markers at the cloud layer staggered 100 meters apart. Using the less scientific eyeball test of when the various clouds passed each waypoint, I estimated that the clouds are moving approximately 150m/s. This is 540km/hr or 335 miles per hour, which is slightly below twice the speed of an average category 5 hurricane wind speed and about equal to the normal travel speed of a small turboprop commercial airplane. Take that wind speed and apply it to the smaller planetary scale as you suggest and the visual effect is actually magnified to make it look even more jarring.
Assuming non storm conditions at what is effectively mountain top elevation (on earth ~10k feet), you're probably looking at 10-20m/s wind speed with peak speeds kicking up to maybe 50m/s, i.e. the current cloud movement speeds are between 3x-15x too fast even if applied to earth scales. Now, having some cloud motion visible because the dynamic clouds are a new toy and you want to show it off, I'd say it's probably okay to have them a little faster than normal, but certainly they need to be slowed down at least 2x-3x where they'd still be seemingly pushed by hurricane force winds.
Side note, if they keep these wind speeds, then man those future windmill wind generators had better be cranking out the power, cause if the wind generator blades are just slowly rotating it's gonna look even weirder. Ideally the game should eventually track the actual wind speed (as part of the power output calculation of the wind turbines) and then the clouds can adjust in speed based on what the wind is actually doing.
whats the average speed of the earths jetstream? 150kmh? could be that the size of the planet makes the entire cloud layer like the planets jetstream? though thats just devils advocate for leaving it as is.
ohhh or this could be like the acceleration based on time of day as the game days are much shorter, to make the same amount of weather happen in the shorter amount of time?
whats the average speed of the earths jetstream? 150kmh? could be that the size of the planet makes the entire cloud layer like the planets jetstream? though thats just devils advocate for leaving it as is.
ohhh or this could be like the acceleration based on time of day as the game days are much shorter, to make the same amount of weather happen in the shorter amount of time?
Well, my point is more trying to explain why the speed of the clouds really slams my brain into the uncanny valley of space clouds. The clouds look very good and my brain reacts negatively to them because '<bleep> those clouds are moving way too fast'. I used the 10k foot example because these clouds are depicted at coming in at about the mountaintop level (for the tallest mountains on the planet). Jet stream is a little faster, yes. Higher clouds do move much faster compared to clouds closer to the ground, but parallax is enough that they also don't look like they're screaming by (which is the source of my comment above saying 'the smaller planetary scale...'), the parallax is off so it magnifies what is already a very fast cloud.
Well, my point is more trying to explain why the speed of the clouds really slams my brain into the uncanny valley of space clouds. The clouds look very good and my brain reacts negatively to them because '<bleep> those clouds are moving way too fast'. I used the 10k foot example because these clouds are depicted at coming in at about the mountaintop level (for the tallest mountains on the planet). Jet stream is a little faster, yes. Higher clouds do move much faster compared to clouds closer to the ground, but parallax is enough that they also don't look like they're screaming by (which is the source of my comment above saying 'the smaller planetary scale...'), the parallax is off so it magnifies what is already a very fast cloud.
I agree. They look SO GOOD! I literally just stared at them for a few minutes. They just don't act like we see clouds moving and it seems uncanny.
I agree. They look SO GOOD! I literally just stared at them for a few minutes. They just don't act like we see clouds moving and it seems uncanny.
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