Will you use the gas cloud technology you developed to create weather effects like rain, thunder or wind in the sky on planets and moons? And if so, will it be a static or a dynamically driven environment?

Sounds like a wrong question, really, because gas cloud tech has nothing to do with it. Well, it has, but not directly. It doesn't directly do weather effects.

Well, except the clouds.

Well, yeah, you do the cloud, but weather effects are VFX, so they don't come from the gas cloud tech. We can drive some of the particles through the clouds.

Yeah, we can use the same systems. The input for the particles could be weather parameters, or whatever those parameters would be. We'll use those parameters to drive visuals for sure. I think there's a lot of similarities, at least from our side of things.

Yeah, I was just thinking of all the work we're doing towards lightning strikes within the cloud as well. Presumably they'd work for planetary clouds.

Yeah, of course. And that's the point. When we make these kinds of systems, we're trying to make them in such a way that we get maximum usage throughout the game. It's not like this can only work with gas clouds. As long as it's got the input, whatever that input is, we can provide the output with the visuals.

In terms of using the gas cloud for other environmental effects, I don't know, if we had dust storms or something. That would be an interesting one, in that you'd probably want the gas cloud in some ways because it's quite good at filling a space. So that can provide that kind of volume. But we don't really have the ability to update it every frame, so it couldn't be boiling away. But then when we go back to VFX, you guys could make the outer edge of it boil.

This is exactly what we're doing with the gas clouds, isn't it? That's essentially a static thing, but we're using velocity fields to push those particles along the surface. You mentioned a dust storm. I know I've had conversations about that, and that's something we could definitely do.