Environmental Events

[Stuart Walpole]

• Timed Events: Track elapsed time (see Simulation=>Time Elapsed) until event (target time specified in session configuration).
  • Examples: Season Cycle, Day/Night Cycle, Ceasefire

• Random Events: Similar to timed events, but they can occur at random (frequency determined by things like climate settings and current season).
  • Examples: Weather.

• Possible effects of event:

• Set actors to this event group if they have it. (ie trees might have a Winter group where their textures are leafless and snow-covered, or an Autumn group where the leaves are red and golden.)

• Seasons Document: http://www.wildfiregames.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=685

• Change light settings to those specified by a lighting group used by the scenario. (eg Twilight, Dawn.)

• Support for scripted conditional modifiers (perhaps handled through Tech system?). For example, to make Fields have a bonus to gathered resources in Spring and Summer, or units have reduced vision in darkness.

• Climate effects (eg snow more prevalent in Winter, though it never snows in desert climate).

• Conditions are affected by the map's climate settings. (For example, it never snows in a desert climate, and there are longer twilights in the northern hemisphere.)