Snow Drift woes... (Great item, horrible overlapping)

Devs, 1st off thank you very much for the addition of snow for our homes.

That being said. One issue for us who excel and OCD on decoration... the snow REALLY is HORRIBLE looking when you try to overlap it!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile.../?id=818977065

Would love it if that could be smoothed out somehow.. If only we couldve lined up the parts differently.

I bought like 9 of these things earlier thinking I could cover the whole yard with snow. Results were... less than satisfactory. I've never seen clipping so horrid.

Someone had a thread or post earlier suggesting a kind of outdoor flooring that could be grass, dirt, sand, snow, etc to fit the season or personal taste, and I'm all for that.

Yeah I was forced to spread it all out and make sure they weren't touching each other. XD

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Originally Posted by Medicine

Yeah I was forced to spread it all out and make sure they weren't touching each other. XD

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Puzzle time? :p

Now for Starlight 2017, I want an Ice Drift!! Something that gives a status similar to Shiva Thin Ice debuff. So we can all happily play the slide game within our FC ground!

Yard skins please!...

The same way we have cottage/house/mansion skins we could also have yard skins, very well designed to fit each of the seasons and we would get rid of those horribly and poorly designed "Snow Drifts", seriously, is that the best the dev team can do!?...

Producer Yoshida once said the game has unlimited possibilities (potential?), well, it's time to demonstrate that and improve the housing experience for all!... :)

I think it would have been more beneficial if they made the furnishing an exact (or more exact) square shape. I wanted to put a patch in the corner of my yard and it clipped terribly through the fence.

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Originally Posted by AnaviAnael

I think it would have been more beneficial if they made the furnishing an exact (or more exact) square shape. I wanted to put a patch in the corner of my yard and it clipped terribly through the fence.

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While I'm all for a yard skin option, I'm glad the current Snow Drift is not square shaped because the current shape with "melted" random corners looks natural when placed without others attached to it.

http://karamail.nerim.net/elys/SS/FF...ftSnowBall.jpg

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Originally Posted by Chocolys

While I'm all for a yard skin option, I'm glad the current Snow Drift is not square shaped because the current shape with "melted" random corners looks natural when placed without others attached to it.

http://karamail.nerim.net/elys/SS/FF...ftSnowBall.jpg

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While yes, I agree a single patch by itself does look better, I hesitate to call it natural. At best it looks like you lived somewhere that doesnt snow, and had a truckload of it dumped on your lawn. Or you just dumped a bunch of powdered laundry detergent everywhere. Why does my lawn smell like fresh linen?

Shoddy work on the devs part but i guess they never intended this, they should have expected this is one of first ideas people would have.

Yard skins should have fixed that while providing a much better overall feeling with snow and snow on the house. The only problem I can see is that they have to figure out how to put snow on garden items like trees and such. I guess.....................LIMITATIONS™ ®

All that is needed is the ability to "paint" the plot as it currently stands. Even a white grass would look good (think hoar frost). Obviously the palette would have to be limited extensively or, harking back to what I remember we had in WorldsAway, special spray cans that could only be used in conjunction with specific items.

So many ideas, so few developers.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Yard skins should have fixed that while providing a much better overall feeling with snow and snow on the house. The only problem I can see is that they have to figure out how to put snow on garden items like trees and such. I guess.....................LIMITATIONS™ ®

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They do it already in Ishgard & Coerthas so it's something that is possible to do but it probably is a limitation of the current engine & PS3 matters. There's bound to be a way to use the graphics engine to toggle snow on & off without individually coding each separate entity. I imagine that it uses too much processing power to meet the current minimum specifications but we know that 4.0 raises those. Yay!

I dont really care, I have space for 20 items outdoors.

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Originally Posted by Culfinrandir

They do it already in Ishgard & Coerthas so it's something that is possible to do but it probably is a limitation of the current engine & PS3 matters. There's bound to be a way to use the graphics engine to toggle snow on & off without individually coding each separate entity. I imagine that it uses too much processing power to meet the current minimum specifications but we know that 4.0 raises those. Yay!

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They can let us paint furniture and apply different textures... I REALLY doubt the true reason is engine limitations unless they hardcoded something ridiculous.

The worst part in my opinion is not the clipping itself but the fact that the edges of the snowdrifts are tinted darker, making the edges stand out a lot when stacked on top of eachother. If the texture was a more solid white it would be far less noticeable.

Why didn't they make a snow drift tile option? Then you could have one that is mean't for patches of snow in the garden and a housing item meant for the entire yard. :P

Honestly though, if they were to rework the garden they should create an option like the flooring and wallpaper inside the house, allowing you to add a skin over the grass, etc.

I put the Small Aetheryte on it. It looks nice.

Look on the """"bright"""" side: If they had made swappable yard floors an option, then they would be destroyed when you replaced them, just like every other indoor and outdoor fixture is. So if one of the event items had been a yard floor, it would have been destroyed as soon as we swapped it out in Spring, and we wouldn't be able to replace it until SE put it on Mogstation for $5 in a year.

At least with the snow piles we can keep them forever (at the cost of -20 inventory slots).

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Originally Posted by Beckett

Look on the """"bright"""" side: If they had made swappable yard floors an option, then they would be destroyed when you replaced them, just like every other indoor and outdoor fixture is. So if one of the event items had been a yard floor, it would have been destroyed as soon as we swapped it out in Spring, and we wouldn't be able to replace it until SE put it on Mogstation for $5 in a year.

At least with the snow piles we can keep them forever (at the cost of -20 inventory slots).

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SE could make an exception with "Yard Skins" and make then non-destructible, the objective after all, is to decorate the plot with the current season of the year!...

They could be crafted by DoH jobs or even through the Workshop, although I'd prefer the first method!...

SE doesn't have to sell everything on the Mog Station and even if they did it would be fine as long as they were NOT single use!...

SE just needs to give us Ishgard plotting.... problem solved in regards to snow design.

Depending on how u'r yards built u can make them work sorta (got 3 on my FC Lawn, 1 by door, under strike dummy & 1 under the 2014 sun topped tree... could possibly fit 1 more but not sure if I have space to remove another item without damaging yards "Fixed" overall look) we just gota "Tetris" it just right to look semi-natural without overlaping (unless u can pull it off by the overlap being under somthing low to ground, like rocks, flower pots or a big birdbath)

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Originally Posted by Frowny

They can let us paint furniture and apply different textures... I REALLY doubt the true reason is engine limitations unless they hardcoded something ridiculous.

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You are playing the same game? They seem to make backward mistakes like this all the time. Wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with the fact they are open zones and how the ground is coded for the whole zone. They would then need to make special items that would allow for new ground textures. Also the threat that fixing said problem means they would need to cancel the gear in 4.2.

Or they could have implemented instanced housing and allowed for unique skins and weather effects.