Rain, Snow, Hail ect?

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Spartacus
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Rain, Snow, Hail ect?

Post by Spartacus »

Im pretty sure you use some type of partical thing to generate this effect but does anyone have any examples of how its done? Or even anything at all that will help me figure it out :P

Or maybe some type of on screen billboarding effect?
Boogle
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Post by Boogle »

I've never done this myself but a friend once told me this is done by placing a cylinder around the camera, and putting a 'raining' animated texture on on the cylinder. The texture would be transparent with animated raindrops. You'd have to experiment a lot with the size of the cylinder and the texture I imagine. You could also deform the vertices of the cylinder so the rain did not appear under ledges, etc.
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Post by saigumi »

Particles would be the way, try the particle tutorial or even better, KnighOfLights snowman demo.
Crud, how do I do this again?
Spartacus
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Post by Spartacus »

KnighOfLights is where?
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KnighOfLights is where?
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Post by [dx/x]=HUNT3R »

straight off the top of the Irrlicht home page -> http://zenprogramming.tripod.com/. The snow thing is at the bottom of KOL's page.
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Post by Spartacus »

How can i make the snow follow the camera :P
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