Why is the snow so flat? :(

I can't deny the snow looks so artificial, nothing natural at all but I also doubt they will do anything about it, this game is coming in a month time.

We still haven't seen heavy snowfall, so we can still hope.

"EmmaVane;c-16491255" wrote:

"AspenSims;c-16491246" wrote:

"EmmaVane;c-16491240" wrote:

"AspenSims;c-16491230" wrote:

"EmmaVane;c-16491229" wrote:

"icmnfrsh;c-16490990" wrote:
Someone posted this on luth's thread, and the snow on the roof and ground does look a bit flat:
https://twitter.com/SimGuruGeorge/status/999805490799394822

There are clearly different thicknesses of snow on that roof. Look above the dormers. The roof texture is visible in those areas, but covered elsewhere.

Seems more like transparency to me

With the way roof tools work in this game (custom curvature etc) they would probably have to spend way too long on making 3D roof snow not graphically glitchy.

Using opacity to suggest the thickness variance is probably easier on dev times, and people's computers when rendering.

Either way, it depends on your definition of flat. Flat mesh, maybe. Flat texture, doesn't look like it.

Okay but we're not talking about suggested thickness. We're talking about three dimensional looking snowpack like in TS2 and TS3. That is why it looks flat. It looks like terrain paint.

And I was talking about the roof in particular.

As for the ground, I'm waiting to see if snow accumulates in different thickness on the ground over time like it did in TS2. It's only the announce trailer, there will be several more.

E.G. Some of the plants didn't look like they were frosty in the trailer (around ice rink) so it may be that they are still working on snow cover and seasonal texture changes etc.

I really hope you are right!

Even if there's no variety now, it can still be patched in.

Here's another Windenburg pic. I hope snow will be thicker too but I'm still happy we have snow.

https://i.imgur.com/wUYClTD.jpg

Personally it doesn't trouble me since this is what snow usually looks like in my town.

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"Yoko2112;c-16491228" wrote:
I like how the absence of an actual snow layer can be seen as a metaphor for how the overall game just lacks depth :D

"Sonia016;c-16491259" wrote:
I can't deny the snow looks so artificial, nothing natural at all but I also doubt they will do anything about it, this game is coming in a month time.

Ugh I’m happy with the rest of the pack, I just wish they’d taken a couple more months to figure out the snow depth somehow.
Whatever, it’s still a day one purchase for me! :lol:

Looks fine to me. Atleast the EP is finally coming out.

I think the game just lacks depth in general - bed covers look flat when they move back and forwards when sims get in for example. The pet beds, the ball pit fiasco. This is the just next example. I thought some of the leaves looked a bit flat when the sim was raking them.