Dynamic weather

drksd4848 · 10-19-2015, 11:41 AM

Oftentimes, in a real-life game, wind directions change/temperatures drop, etc.

I wonder if it would be possible to have the weather change in game? Not necessarily rain, because that comes and goes already, but how about this:

The wind is blowing in from center @ 10mph and it's 70 degrees, then by the 4th inning, the weather changes; the temperature drops by 7 degrees, and the wind shifts and blows out to left @ 22mph. All of the sudden, those flyballs that where getting knocked down by the wind, start carrying out left field and flying out of the ballpark!

This use to happen a lot at Fenway Park before they built that ugly-looking monolith behind home plate in 1989.

realstar · 10-29-2015, 07:42 AM

I agree with drksd4848. More weather immersion makes for more realism on the game level. Include the changes of different weather years in historical for even more weather detail.

One of my favorite baseball short stories in a book, read when I was a kid (can't remember name) was about a minor league center-fielder from like the 1920s-30s who played on a field where the fog was notorious for moving in during the late-afternoon (apparently no lights/night games at this field which was accepted as the norm in this storybook tale). Great scene depicted where, during a close game, a 2-out runners on base bottom of the 9th long fly was hit and he chased it into the fog while the umpire chased after him.

Of course he caught it on a dive, blindly reaching out into the mist, and the ump somehow saw it & everybody thought it was gone but they came back to the clear with the out.

As many people are aware, occasionally catching a ball happens like magic: a combination of finesse & luck.

It was after reading that story that I always knew I wanted to be an outfielder.

10-19-2015, 11:41 AM	#1
drksd4848 All Star Starter Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,932	Dynamic weather Oftentimes, in a real-life game, wind directions change/temperatures drop, etc. I wonder if it would be possible to have the weather change in game? Not necessarily rain, because that comes and goes already, but how about this: The wind is blowing in from center @ 10mph and it's 70 degrees, then by the 4th inning, the weather changes; the temperature drops by 7 degrees, and the wind shifts and blows out to left @ 22mph. All of the sudden, those flyballs that where getting knocked down by the wind, start carrying out left field and flying out of the ballpark! This use to happen a lot at Fenway Park before they built that ugly-looking monolith behind home plate in 1989.

10-29-2015, 07:42 AM	#2
realstar Minors (Single A) Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 81	I agree with drksd4848. More weather immersion makes for more realism on the game level. Include the changes of different weather years in historical for even more weather detail. One of my favorite baseball short stories in a book, read when I was a kid (can't remember name) was about a minor league center-fielder from like the 1920s-30s who played on a field where the fog was notorious for moving in during the late-afternoon (apparently no lights/night games at this field which was accepted as the norm in this storybook tale). Great scene depicted where, during a close game, a 2-out runners on base bottom of the 9th long fly was hit and he chased it into the fog while the umpire chased after him. Of course he caught it on a dive, blindly reaching out into the mist, and the ump somehow saw it & everybody thought it was gone but they came back to the clear with the out. As many people are aware, occasionally catching a ball happens like magic: a combination of finesse & luck. It was after reading that story that I always knew I wanted to be an outfielder. __________________ "The use of defensive shifts has exploded in Major League Baseball -- a 440-percent increase just since 2010, according to Baseball Info Solutions. So increasingly, defenses are judged not just by their personnel but how that personnel is specifically deployed, pitch by pitch." --Anthony Castrovince, Sports on Earth Last edited by realstar; 11-14-2015 at 09:54 PM.