Easy way to make rain?

[Bio Hazard]

can we get a way to make a sector "rain" objects? there could be a command like

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Sector_Rain(tid,thingidtorain,raindensity,rainfrequency,gravity);

density would be how close the drops are and frequency would be how often they drop.

it would really help with making rain/snow as you dont have to put map spots evrywhere


how it would work is it would pick a random xy coord in the sector and spawn the desired thing at the ceiling

combined with NONINTERACTIVETHING this would solve a lot of the problems with making rain/snow

[Chris]

Or even better.. some kind of mapinfo option similar to lightning where, instead of flashing F_SKY(1) sectors and playing a thunder sound, would spawn random rain particles in sectors that have F_SKY(1)? There could even be a ForceRain ACS command.

[David Ferstat]

See this thread to see what we need done first.

[Bio Hazard]

*BUMP*

Has anyone thought about this? I really hate having all 500 of those map spots in Z1M9...

[Chris]

Has anyone thought about this? I really hate having all 500 of those map spots in Z1M9...

Could try using a cross-stitch pattern of 2-sided lines in the sectors with sky, and add rain textures that scroll down. Make 'em large, with random starting offsets, and make multiples of them so they don't look like they're repeating from line to line.

[Enjay]

and add rain textures that scroll down

If you actually mean scrolling, rather than an animated texture that looks like scrolling, then it won't work because of the way Doom handles textures on 2S lines.

13 hours

[Sir_Alien]

13 hours

Sux to be you.

Less than 5.

[TheDarkArchon]

/me mutters "Bastard" under my breath

Ahem.

12 hours 49 minutes.

[Bio Hazard]

Could try using a cross-stitch pattern of 2-sided lines in the sectors with sky, and add rain textures that scroll down. Make 'em large, with random starting offsets, and make multiples of them so they don't look like they're repeating from line to line.

God that would look tacky. Defintely not good for KDiZD. and plus, then I would have 500 2s lines all over the place

[Cutmanmike]

*BUMP*

Has anyone thought about this? I really hate having all 500 of those map spots in Z1M9...

Yes this is the problem. Some pc's will melt due to the mass amount of raindrops and mapspots

[Hirogen2]

TNT 3 did not even have many mapspots, and yet it dies most machines. I wonder what would be happening to your map then

[Graf Zahl]

TNT 3 did not even have many mapspots, and yet it dies most machines. I wonder what would be happening to your map then

That was because the snow is active everywhere at once. With a smarter system that separates the map into sections and activates the snow only where necessary it would have been much less time consuming.


In the end it will remain an effect with needs a lot of time for very little visual gain. I just modified the script in the end and turned it off. Playability was more important to me.

[Hirogen2]

/me2, I ripped the script completely out. And I liked that there actually was a SCRIPTS lump, which - sadly - not every map author supplies...

[Graf Zahl]

And I liked that there actually was a SCRIPTS lump, which - sadly - not every map author supplies...

Especially with something like Cold As Hell. The scripts in that WAD created far too many problems and getting to the source to fix them was some really ugly work. But at least I got it working without the new HUD and the reloading (which sucked anyway.)