Weather mod ideas

[kiwiak]

Few vague thoughts about hypothetical weather mod, and what might be interesting about it.

Weather on kerbin<weather on other planets - i mean what woudl be more intersting.

On kerbin, unless there are some career mode deadlines, player can just time accelerate until weather gets better.

But for example on Duna, having various weather zones, some randomly placed dust storms moving over surface, woudl make things much more interesting.

Player woudl have to choose landing site.

Landing during storm or high wind woudl mean that another force is acting on lander, throwing it off course. Dust devils coudl obscur visibility.

And to keep track on current weather on surface, some additional weather sat woudl be required, otherwise orbiting spacecraft woudl see only half of the planet in real time, and other half observations might become outdated.

More advanced sensors, or maybe some oboard computer woudl be able to predict weather.

This coudl be integrated with scansat maps - it is ideal framework for displaying various maps.

[drtedastro]

keep it going. sit what you can come up with....

[CDK]

I was wanting a lightning and storm plugin. Click HERE for my thread about it.