Sebastian Schroeder · Senior Environment Artist

Hopefully. I mean, the fact that we have everything based on temperature and humidity now, which is almost climate, will allow us to do much more than we could before. But it's still something we need to put more work in and build things specifically for. So hopefully we will be able to have seasons soon, or eventually. Who knows? But it would be nice to have it. And we're already preparing some of the assets in a way so we can actually change the color, like have the leaves change color and stuff. So we are slowly preparing for it, but I'm not sure if there are specific plans for when that is going to be a thing.

Michel Kooper · Lead Environment Artist

It's a very large-scale dynamic thing that would need to happen. So you can sort of predict or imagine how we would set up assets for it, but how all those components would tie in together...

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

The point is it's not coming next week, if it comes. One of the really cool things about Planet Tech V4, and we talk about it quite a bit in the ISC that went out yesterday with the VFX team, is what you just mentioned, Sebastian: how we now have temperature information in the surface types. And we can pull so much from that. That's what the VFX team is tying into to inform the type of storm that is produced over each area. So it's definitely conceivable, at the very least. It seems theoretically possible to tie into that same information to flock trees in the winter or something like that. But at this point, I'm not aware of any direct plans or intentions to do that. But who knows what the future holds.

Sebastian Schroeder · Senior Environment Artist

Did Ali talk about the snow depositing on the suit of the player? That was a thing in ISC, right? So that's also going to tie into the whole environment as well. So we will be able to have snow deposit on everything in the environment eventually. So there are things coming together that will hopefully give us seasons eventually. But we're not there yet.

Michel Kooper · Lead Environment Artist

Yeah, it's a lot of building blocks being put into place.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Now, the snow buildup affecting the player outfits, if I remember correctly, that's not in 3.8. That's coming later, 3.9, I think, because we have to go back and set up all the different armor types and character types to do that. So the tech is there. We just need to implement it across everything at this point.