Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-29799506-20170705095708/@comment-26829117-20170705160845

I'm curious why you think the introduction of weather would be difficult for some Android devices but not iOS devices. All graphics features have to cope with limitations of devices. There are two aspects to weather:
 * 1) Weather visualisation
 * 2) Weather impact in game

The first is the only one that would test devices that don't have decent graphics capabilities. The second could be implemented without the visual effect (falling rain or snow being the only ones I can think of).

The majority of data in any 3D game is the texture maps. If you want to change the seasons then you just need to change the texture maps. Having four, or possibly more, texture maps for each track would be very expensive in terms of storage space and would stress older/cheaper devices.