Thread: Dynamic windows

I love, love, love the imitation windows (BUT LET US PUT THEM ON PARTITIONS/OVER REAL WINDOWS *cough*). What I would love to see next are dynamic windows. They don't need to reflect what's actually outside (and I'd rather they not, I don't want to look at my neighbor's moogle house inside as well as outside) but rather, generic scenes from the housing ward. The beach. Palm trees and fountains. A grass-lined street with flowers and trees that sway in the breeze. We already know they can get time-of-day tracking, because the imitation windows can track the sun as it moves through the sky, and they can track positionals, because east windows get the sun rays before west windows do. This means they could show a different scene based off which side of the house they're on, and it could look consistent from side to side.

It would make rooms feel so much bigger! (In b4 'server limitations', I'm sure there are reasons why they can't, but I can dream )

That would be so amazing... <3

oh pls, its super annoying to have 2-3 kinds of windows on the wall... >_>

Originally Posted by Kuroka

oh pls, its super annoying to have 2-3 kinds of windows on the wall... >_>

Then stick with one and don't worry about it? I mean, it's not like we'll get anything like this anyway. At least not anytime soon lol.

Indeed, that's why I 1) want it to be optional and 2) wish they would make it so that imitation windows would cover housing windows.

Originally Posted by Kytrin

Then stick with one and don't worry about it? I mean, it's not like we'll get anything like this anyway. At least not anytime soon lol.

I use the stone ones in my basement since they look nice there, but on the other floors i got the default windows from my skin AND at least one of the wooden windows. if we at least had windows for each hosung style we would be fine...

I can't remember if I posted or not on the suggestion thread, but I always though it'd be neat if they could link up some windows to a skybox. Maybe one with some torn flailing curtains with a storm outside, or a nice sunny day with some birds flying around. It'd probably have to be limited to the base walls to work, possibly event replacing the current windows. Kind of a dream house feature and not likely one within the scope of this game's dev team.

...Or like at the inn in Kugane? xD

Originally Posted by Kuroka

...Or like at the inn in Kugane? xD

That would be great! I was thinking of just scenes through glass, but I /love/ the Kugane inn room window and would happily kill for it in my house.

I would love to put the imitation windows on top of the regular ones hiding these.

As much as I would love to have an actual view out of my window I doubt it will happen anytime soon if at all. That would mean a lot of processing power of the servers to keep those "screen savers" running all the time I would assume (not a pro sorry).
Also I can already hear the whining about how plastering one whole side of a house with windows ends up showing 30 times the same image instead of one huge scenery as it should. I guess that stays a dream.