What if ROBLOX created a weather feature?

Falling in love - A piece by Zakary

Strap yourselves in for a lengthy article!

I've been wondering, the ROBLOX team are making Dynamic Lighting, but is this all we will be getting? I think if we had a few more things to make the game more realistic I would fall in love as shown.

But what if they expanded their visions, to a weather category? What if your ROBLOXian could get a tan? Or while looking into the sky a lens-flare appeared on your screen? Or even if within your world it started raining and puddles were formed? What then? We would be talking a big advance from the current ROBLOX visuals, but could also make for some interesting gameplay dynamics. Each weather function would have a play in your rendering panel on the settings in Studio and if your computer couldn't handle them they wouldn't show. But those of us that can handle it, don't you wish to take your computer to the full extent of it's capabilities, like Portal 2 does on my computer. Imagine, realistic water that could splash! It would add a feel of greater realism to our blocky world.

Lens-Flare:
Lens flare has always been an excellent graphical effect in every game that has it, and no doubt it will be excellent if it was implemented into the ROBLOX engine. I often look at the sun in a ROBLOX place, and I think, "There's something missing.." and I think a\lens-flare would be just the ticket. Adding lens-flare would add another layer of realism and would make the game beautiful.


Rain:
This was a big part of my suggestion; rain that can actually splash and doesn't need to be scripted! How cool would that be? It would be able to form puddles and the physics would be excellent allowing us to have some days sunny and some days rainy. Most RPGs at the moment are consist of sunny weather, which confirms the suspicion that the game is just running a looped script. With different weather options it would allow a random function to randomize the weather and predict it, making RPGs, more real. It would be great...

More Sun capabilities:
This would also be realistic, the ROBLOX sun being able to give your character a tan, amazing, a game can tan pixels. This would be so realistic, and beautiful. I would be able to have the tan that I gain when I go to Spain on my ROBLOXian. However, the online dating prospects of this idea could make a grown man's skin crawl.


These are just small suggestions, however weather could consist of hailstones, snow, thunderstorms, tornadoes and more...!


Thanks for reading.
-Zakary99