This plugin introduces cloud movement that dynamically adjusts based on your city's view and scale, adding an extra layer of realism and visual appeal to your cities.
Features:
1. Dynamic Cloud Movement:
- Movement: Clouds move from the right side, to the left side of the screen.
- Speed Adjustment: Cloud movement adjusts to match the speed of your city, keep in mind that the movement of the clouds is slow.
- Horizontal (X-axis) movements keep clouds within their range, while vertical (Y-axis) movements adjust cloud positions to a new view.
- Fast movements of the screen cause the clouds disappear and reappear new clouds.
2. Adaptive Cloud Generation:
- Automatic Reappearance: Clouds disappear when out of view and automatically reappear within the visible range of the city.
- Performance: The number of clouds adjusts automatically based on the city size.
* Regardless of plot size, only 8 clouds are visible at time for performance optimization.
3. Visual Variety:
- Appearance: Clouds vary in transparency and size, creating a visually diverse sky.
* Keep in mind that there are only 4 frames, 2 large and 2 small clouds, for performance reasons.
- Shadow Effects: Clouds have shadow effects.
- Day/Night Compatibility: Clouds adjust to the day/night cycle.
- Zoom Consideration: Clouds automatically become invisible when zoomed in too closely to avoid obstructing the view.
- Cloud Scaling: The size of the clouds is adjusted slightly according to the zoom scale.
4. User Settings:
- Enable/Disable Clouds: Toggle the cloud on or off through the Settings menu.
Tested City Sizes:
- Small: 0.10 km²
- Medium: 0.41 km²
- Big: 1.6 km²
- Huge: 6.6 km²
- Colossal: 15 km²
- Giant: 26 km²
- Even Bigger: 105 km²
Credits:
Special thanks to Jefri a.l for the cloud design.