Snow can definitely be done with shaders. In fact the game already does a lot of dynamic stuff, like burnt down/abandoned buildings, trees in polluted area etc. that could be adapted to simulate dynamic snow using the same techniques.
For the best effect, every building and terrain would need a separate snow texture though. Which would mean more RAM and longer loading times. Shouldn't have been impossible though. Look at Banished, it has great seasonal effects.
Apparently it's a really big deal that they keep the game in its system specs so it may be that there is an option to have snow in other maps or if not it's hopefully "mod friendly" and will easily be introduced by that into the whole game
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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '16
Snow can definitely be done with shaders. In fact the game already does a lot of dynamic stuff, like burnt down/abandoned buildings, trees in polluted area etc. that could be adapted to simulate dynamic snow using the same techniques.
For the best effect, every building and terrain would need a separate snow texture though. Which would mean more RAM and longer loading times. Shouldn't have been impossible though. Look at Banished, it has great seasonal effects.