How to Use Time and Weather Effects for Immersive RPG Sessions

Описание: In this video I'll show you how to use the Time and Weather Tab in Infinite Realms to enhance your Scenarios for your tabletop RPG sessions
Infinite Realms provides immersive and handy tools for your classic 2D battle maps, animated video maps and our all-new 3d maps!

In our 3d maps, in the Time & Weather tab, we have the options to configure the time, light intensity, wind and weather for the scenario.
I have loaded our Spider Valley map for illustration, the time is currently set to late night. Then moonlight shines through the dark clouds only sparsely and the scene is correspondingly gloomy. Depending on the output device - TV or projector - this can be okay or too dark to play the map reasonably. That's why we placed the Light Intensity Slider in the immediate vicinity, so that we can quickly adjust it after adjusting the time of day.

During the day, it shouldn't usually be necessary to turn up the light much, so we set it back to the second level.

Notice how when we drag the Daytime slider, the light color changes at dusk, light and shadows move through the scene.

To demonstrate the different weather profiles, let's set the time around noon. The dark clouds could be followed by a thunderstorm of course, let's see how that looks.

Rain sets in, there is thunder and lightning. The light remains dim, the dark clouds are of course still there.

Rain can occur without thunderstorms, of course. From light showers to heavy rain, everything is included!

Weather profiles with precipitation automatically load a soundscape alongside. However, it is always possible to add other sounds independent of the weather effect. Let's switch from Heavy Rain 1 to Heavy Rain 2 for a bit of variety.

Snow is usually silent, the noise in the background comes from nearby waterfall in the scene. The wind sounds are automatically adjusted with the set wind strength. Wind physically affects precipitation, vegetation, and things like smoke and steam in 3d scenarios.
Gust Strength mainly affects the movement of plants and trees, which can bend quite a bit in a strong gust.

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In the next episode I'll show you how to adjust the volume of the weather effects and how to enhance the scenario with ambience, music and battle sounds.

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