Custom weather effects

[indiana_tim_d]

Does anyone know how to make custom weather effects? I want to try and create a rain of falling ash/pumice stone from a volcano.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[wacko]

Bjarne has excellent tutorials at his site. One deals with letting it snow.
http://www.planetmedalofhonor.com/rjuka ... index.html.
Try this and change the texture of the rain/snow to ash...

[indiana_tim_d]

Cool! Thanks.

[indiana_tim_d]

Um, I've hit a slight problem: i can't get the textures to work. not even using the script straight out of the tutorial. i just get loads of little white-edged black boxes falling from the sky, not quite the effect i wanted!

[wacko]

...little white-edged black boxes...

is this supposed to be the snow or the ash?

[tltrude]

The shader can't find the texture. Make sure the path is correct in your new ash shader.

[indiana_tim_d]

it was both the snow (from directly copying the example script) and my custom ash texture that didn't work.


This is the script that the tut said to replace

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exec global/weather.scr
exec global/ambient.scr m5l1b

with:

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//The snow
level.rain_speed = "32"
level.rain_speed_vary = "16"
level.rain_length = "2"
level.rain_width = "1"
level.rain_density = ".2"
level.rain_slant = "250"
level.rain_min_dist = "1800"
level.rain_numshaders = 12
level.rain_shader = "textures/snow7"

I haven't got a shader for my ash texture - what parameters would it have to have? Could someone give me an example?

[tltrude]

Just copy the textures/snow7 shader from the pak0.pk3/scripts/effects.shader file. And, change the path and tga to your new image. Name it "ash.shader" and put it in a folder named "scripts" in main. That folder will have to be included in your final pk3, alone with the textures folder.

In your map script change, that last line to the new shader.

level.rain_shader = "textures/ash1" // or whatever you named it.