Description

🌩️ Cloud System More organic cloud shapes Fluffier cloud edges and sides Cauliflower-style cloud tops Reduced smooth, fog-like appearance Better cloud density variation More natural supercell structure Improved anvil appearance Better cloud layering 🌪️ Tornado System Smoother tornado movement (less zigzagging) Proper wedge tornadoes that stay wide Improved rope tornadoes Stovepipe tornado variants Cone tornado variants Elephant trunk tornado variants Drill-bit tornado variants Landspout-style funnels Better condensation funnels Improved debris cloud structure 🌪️ Multi-Vortex Tornadoes Independent subvortices Different vortex sizes Different orbit speeds Variable-strength subvortices More realistic parent circulation Better visibility of individual vortices ☁️ Wall Clouds Horseshoe-shaped mesocyclone structure Wall cloud positioned near the RFD/FFD interface Less smooth geometry Ragged scud underneath Rotating wall cloud lowering Deeper central lowering Better connection to the storm base Asymmetrical wall cloud structure ☁️ Tail Clouds Connected to the inflow region Ragged fragmented appearance Broken scud pieces More realistic inflow bands Less tube-like geometry Variable thickness 🌧️ Squall Lines Embedded convective cells Improved shelf cloud appearance Better storm segmentation More realistic line evolution Improved rain-core placement Trailing stratiform region Better gust-front appearance 🌪️ QLCS Tornadoes Embedded tornadoes inside squall lines Mesovortex-style circulations Tornadoes forming along the gust front Smaller spin-up tornadoes Short-lived QLCS events 🌊 High Wind Water Effects

From the renderer code:

Wind-driven whitecaps Foam streaks Strong-wind spray effects Shoreline overflow sheets Better foam clustering Distance-based rendering Animated water-surface effects 🌦️ Storm Structure Improvements Better mesocyclone appearance More realistic storm organization Stronger distinction between storm types Better storm-scale cloud formations Improved supercell visual structure 🎮 Gameplay Impact

For a player storm chasing:

Easier to identify supercells visually Easier to spot wall clouds Easier to identify tornado potential More realistic storm evolution Better visual cues for storm intensity More varied tornado appearances Better-looking squall lines and QLCS events