Adding bigger waves into the ocean

[zealous vault]

I noticed that even when you have waves at the max level, they barely touch the side of the ship. And if you are in a storm IRL, such as a typhoon, or in any bad weather... Or in the atlantic or pacific, you will see that the waves go over the ship! And it causes a lot of splashing everywhere, which would be an awesome affect when you are sailing through a storm. Another thing that could happen is the ship could sink, or list at a huge amount due to the waves going at the side of your ship. And this could add a lot of RP'ing in the server, for people who need search and rescue, or if they need to rescue anyone. I know that this would annoy a lot of people who just want to run their ships overnight, and not be worried about their ship sinking while they are sleeping, or away from their computer, so this could be a feature that you could toggle on, or off. This would bring a lot more realism to boating, and make it so people actualy want to sail, instead of using it as a money grab. The image shows what waves look like now, and they could look way cooler.

Link for the waves I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYe2tkXgPqs

[proper pollen]

Not sinking

[zealous vault]

alr, well... Having water go over your boat

[proper pollen]

As long as it keeps current heading, then sure. Could even play as like a 2 min animation or sum

[granite ivy]

our ocean isn’t really dense enough for this

[crystal gyro]

wdym?

[granite ivy]

how to explain

uhhhh

[proper pollen]

Not enough area between landmasses for these to realistically generate?

[zealous vault]

Still... having some storms with bigger waves could be cool

around rawiki

[granite ivy]

no

like

you know how the terrain is made of triangles

It’s the same thing with the wave system

the triangles aren’t small enough to deform in a way that looks good

the waves could probably go up and down a bit more

But that video

Definitely not

[zealous vault]

fair

Making the waves bigger is all I am asking

[wispy lodge]

Hmm

Call it rouge waves, rhymes with grug

[wispy lodge]

Instead of fucking a flat mesh plane that became 3D, why don’t we make anothet mesh for said rogue waves?

[plucky juniper]

It would be nice but I don't think aeronautica is built for it

Also it would absolutely fuck with seaplanes

[wispy lodge]

You know seas near the shore are usually calm right?

[plucky juniper]

Mfw I have to try and land in sea state 5 trying to do SAR in a Catalina

[wispy lodge]

Oh yeah forgot about those

[proper pollen]

Ah

Maybe separate models to go on top of the current ocean?

[wispy lodge]

Triangles are the way of deforming anything

[plucky juniper]

SUBDIVIDE OCEAN 50 TIMES

[wispy lodge]

Literally what i said

[proper pollen]

I may not have read before speaking

[plucky juniper]

Anyways yeah sea should be rougher

You can currently do emergency landings in the ocean with literally any plane without being swamped underwater

Hell you can do water landings in the F-15 without losing engines

[wispy lodge]

Make it more rewarding for SAR

[plucky juniper]

Also SAR missions popping up more often in storms with worse sea and air conditions

[granite ivy]

It is already

There’s a flat ocean

and then there’s the wave ocean

The wave ocean is smaller and follows the player

[proper pollen]

That explains why you can see a different shade of ocean moving under you at the right alt

[plucky juniper]

Would it be possible to make it appear as a circle instead of a square

The square feels so unnatural

[granite ivy]

It would be a Minecraft ahh circle

[plucky juniper]

Yeah but that's better than a square I think

[granite ivy]

I suppose

But that still doesn’t fix the amount of triangles it adds very much

[plucky juniper]

True

ROBLOX DROP THE NOT RENDERING SHIT YOU CAN'T SEE THING UPDATE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!

[proper pollen]

I was suggesting a more ‘wave’ model, that would pop up around the ship in random places and random(ish, still the same direction) angles.

It would prob look kinda trash though and would have to be in a very small area to not effect performance too much

[granite ivy]

Elaborate

[proper pollen]

Uhhh

Something like this raises up from the ocean. They generate in random locations so there are quite a few around your boat

It would look kinda trash, as I’ve mentioned

[shell bison]

we can simplify this further and just make it follow the wind direction (idk if it's even simple lmao)

[noble bay]

person_number_12 is AFK: sleeping - 4 hours ago

[proper pollen]

these are for coastlines

[rare berry]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-star-gif-20627712

[rare berry]

Given the game's attention to detail in terms of scenery and models, the devs would not do something that looks trash

[stiff bone]

it should follow wind direction ngl

[plucky juniper]

[shell bison]

let's just do it by following the wind direction (for optimization and less hassle for the devs)