Does the Arma engine include tides?

[NFK 102]

I just want a confirmation of whether the ocean in the arma engine has high and low tides. The reason I ask is that I've left boats near the shoreline only to come back hours later to find them stuck in the shallows. Is this tidal action, did someone else just move it, or am I crazy?

Thanks to anyone who can answer this conclusively.

[greenfist (DayZ) 11]

I'm almost sure the tides are modeled in the game.

Can you use the editor to find out? Change date and watch the water level?

[Tsyn 215]

I can't give you a direct answer because I do not know. But, what I do know, is that ArmA 2 does have real moon cycles and real time cycles.

I'm unsure about tides and it seems a bit out of the way, but perhaps you're right.

[NFK 102]

Quick follow-up: If the engine does have tides, is it possible to determine how their timing is calculated and thus put together an almanac? I would love to know when it's going to be high or low tide on a server.

Edited July 28, 2012 by NFK

[NFK 102]

So I did some more googling around, and found a few brief references to tides in BI forums:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?108579-Tide-Water-level-Arma-2-Utes

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?41722-Water-waves-and-tides

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?32123-Rivers-caves-and-quot-moving-quot-tides

I'd still like to know if it's possible to figure out when high/low tides will happen on a server.