This is an ideal way to do it, and basically would use the same principle employed by grimes' series of mods.Xegethra wrote: ↑06 Jun 2022 00:30 Seasons would be nice. A proper dynamic system where we see the seasons merge into each other and the appropriate areas get the appropriate effects. But that way is the harder way.
A less natural way would be to have it like in Forza Horizon 4. Have the seasons last a set few days. Since the days in game are short, a year in game can still last 365 days. The seasons wouldn't transition over each other over time, but would rather hard swap into the next with a fade out or screen swipe at the set time. If on a job or resting then it waits until that is finished before changing. But that's still a bit of work.
One other way would be to have set seasons as options before play....so you swap them out at will as and when you feel.
Or just scrap seasons, ignore spring and autumn and keep the summer map as a generic warm time and add permanent snow into commonly snowy areas, like the previous games did.
I'd like to see seasons, even if winter is just frosty and no snow at all. I can see why it would never happen, I know SCS want it to or did or what have you but I won't go mad if it never happens.
The only challenge is some areas would need to not be winter visually (like southern cali).
I would love to see some areas like mountain passes just covered in snow all "season", but an occasional day with clear roads and snow on the sides would be nice as well.
Grimes has all of these done already:
No snow, muted colors
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Full snow
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Clear roads with snow on the side
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Regardless of how they do it, something is better than nothing. And right now, we have nothing.