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F4-BMS 2.0 Technical Manual

4 WEATHER

4.1 INTRODUCTION

BMS 2.0 features a physically-based weather engine, including real-time light scattering, terrain

vertex lighting, volumetric vertex fog, highly detailed 3D cumulus, cirrus, stratus, overcast clouds,

cloud shadows, heavy cloud transitions, lightning, and rain.

4.2

DYNAMIC WEATHER

The weather in Falcon 4 is now dynamic. When starting a new campaign, or entering a TE, IA, or

DF scenario, a random weather condition will be generated, along with all relevant atmospheric

conditions. The weather will gradually change over time, a maximum of once per day. After

saving a campaign, the current weather at that point in time will also be saved. The current

weather at any point in time may be overriden by selecting one of 4 pre-set conditions in the

Graphics Setup tab.