Global Weather Effects

This is kind of a mish-mash of several topics and replies to other topics in the forum, so I thougnt "Hey. Why not make a thread out of it?" and here we are. :)

Basically, this would allow you to apply weather effects to your level. It could have a category in Global Lighting, and the weather effects could consist of:

• Rain
  --Set Rain Color
  --Set Rain Intensity
  --Toggle Thunder and Lightning
• Snow
  --Set Snow Color
  --Set Snow Intensity
• Hail
  --Set Hail Color
  --Set Hail Intensity
• Sunny
  --All details depend on global lighting

Then you could have a part to tweak clouds:

• Set Cloud Density
• Set Cloud Color
• Cloud Shadow Amount

And, as another topic has suggested, another category for wind:

• Set Wind Direction
  --(0-360)
  --(x/y/z axis)
• Set Wind Strength
• Set Wind Particles
  --None
  --Leaves
  --Ash
  --Fog
  --Grass
  --Dirt
  --Sparks
• Set Particle Amount
  --Sliding scale
• Set Particle Color

And maybe something for how it affects everything:

• Affects objects?
• Require tag?
• Affects player?
  --Sackboy
  --Toggle (Big)
  --Toggle (Small)
  --Oddsock
  --Swoop

...Yeah.

I have seen the LBP3 trailer countless of times and I see rain, wind, etc. I'm sure that they already have implemented weather effects into the game. We saw some in LBP Vita, I'm sure they wont take a step back in that department.