Isolated cumulonimbus and thunderstorms

[jef32]

For now, we can't see isolated cumulonimbus and lightnings going with far from our position in the DCS. Hope they will come one day.

And in a more general wishlist about clouds, more clouds than just cumulus and cirrus. (Stratus, tower cumulus, cirrocumuls, nimbostratus and so on...)

[Bosun]

This request is similar to a comment I had about a year ago on the new clouds. 

They look amazing in their detail, but their structures and formations (within a system-wide layout) are tiled and do not reflect actual frontal systemic formulation.  

The clouds in IL-2 lack the detail of these clouds, but they attempt better mimicry of the actual frontal formations of dynamic weather that occur.  They have striated cumulus, cumulonimbus towers, etc, that make various weather feel more immersive.  The clouds then look great from most any angle, even if not as detailed.  The clouds here will look great, usually, from only a couple of angles, and once you're above them, or in them, you can see how the magic was made in the layering and the illusion is somewhat lost.  

This brings in to sharper focus the difficulties facing a development team these days - the closer we get to technology that allows us a high fidelity of real life, the more difficult and arduous the task is of creating full immersion, because the player is using less and less of their imagination to suspend disbelief. 

Edited March 23, 2023 by Bosun