Independent Parameter for setting/overriding Sea Swell height.

[Dangerzone]

Can I please request for consideration an independent parameter for setting the sea swell in the map editor.

Currently the swell is directly coupled with the local wind setting. However IRL, sea swell is not solely a product of local winds. Swells are often generated by distant weather systems, sometimes thousands of kilometers away, and can persist independently of local wind conditions.  

The current system in DCS, where swell height is directly tied to local wind settings, does not accurately reflect this behavior.

I propose adding a separate configuration option for swell height in the map editor, that allows for the decoupling from local wind parameters. When set to 'auto' (default) - it can keep the same logic as now, to make it backwards compatible, but this can be changed to set the swell height to override from the sea parameter. 

This would allow mission designers to create more realistic and different scenario's for their missions, and hopefully wouldn't be too difficult to implement at a core level. 

Thanks for consideration.

DZ

[Northstar98]

It would also be good to have sea states that go beyond 4.

[draconus]

[Dangerzone]

11 hours ago, draconus said:

I searched for swell, and wave in titles - but didn't think of 'water state'. But thanks for confirming that I'm not going nutz, and indeed there was a request for this prior.