Time Scale

[mav1]

In cmx1 you had months. So is their any time scale in shock force. I would like to set a date and time for a battle or campaign. Like set a battle to start at 7 o'clock for example.

[rune]

Yep there is a three month span, you can select day and time.

Rune

[Michael Dorosh]

The time of day will also effect lighting dramatically; you can actually watch the sun rise or set if you are early or late in the day, as the sun now moves in the sky, unlike earlier CM titles in which dawn might last for 2 hours.

[Speedy]

So what season is it?

[Michael Dorosh]

Originally posted by Speedy:

So what season is it?

It'll be so cool, you'll think every day is Christmas.

[aka_tom_w]

Originally posted by Michael Dorosh:

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So what season is it?

It'll be so cool, you'll think every day is Christmas. </font>

[SGT_56M]

For OPSEC reasons, the exact timing of the invasion cannot be released at this time.

Rest assured though, independent of the date, designers can control both the temperature (cool, hot, very hot) and humidity/ground conditions (damp, dry, very dry). So any season could be modeled. This also helps for modeling terrain in the arid central plateau vs the humid coastal areas.

There are more temp/moisture settings, I just can't think of them all at the moment.

[mav1]

So if the invasion of the game is set from august to october.

Can you edit the month names to january to march for example.

[SGT_56M]

No, currently there are only 3 months available and they are hard coded.

I'll double check when I get home, but I don't think the date is displayed anywhere other than in the editor.

[MikeyD]

"Can you edit the month names to january to march for example. "

Well, you can of course 'make-believe' its any month/year or location you want. Except it might be hard to do a mid-winter Chechnia campaign because you simply couldn't get appropriate weather/clothing. I expect more than a few Red-on-Red 3rd party scenarios will start "Its Sarajevo, May 1992" and will simply disregard the editor's date.

[mav1]

Originally posted by MikeyD:

"Can you edit the month names to january to march for example. "

Well, you can of course 'make-believe' its any month/year or location you want. Except it might be hard to do a mid-winter Chechnia campaign because you simply couldn't get appropriate weather/clothing. I expect more than a few Red-on-Red 3rd party scenarios will start "Its Sarajevo, May 1992" and will simply disregard the editor's date.

I was also thinking of the date being set back for the ww2 western game to july 1943 so that it could be modded to play Italian front games. I think it would be easy to mod the ww2 game to look more like italy. Just the date would stick out a bit. Also having the date moved to 1946, what if scenarios could be created. Its all cosmetic really, it would just mean reallying less on imagination.

[Speedy]

Originally posted by MikeyD:

I expect more than a few Red-on-Red 3rd party scenarios will start "Its Sarajevo, May 1992" and will simply disregard the editor's date.

I was thinking more Panjsher Valley 1982 .

[MikeyD]

"...set back for the ww2 western game to july 1943"

Wow, a 1943 game where the wimpiest tank in the arsenal has a 100mm gun, and 100mm of bow armor! I rather suspect the timeframe on this particular game can only be pushed so far back and no further. Or would that be 'no farther'? I get those two words mixed up.

Of course THEY can push the game engine as far back as they want for new titles. Or forward. Laser cannon wars in the year 2099!

[ June 27, 2007, 06:56 AM: Message edited by: MikeyD ]

[Sgt Joch]

I'm guessing each additional module will unlock other months. Does that mean CMSF + 3 expansion pack before we have access to the whole year?