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AzureZeal
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Posted: 8th Jul 2003 22:53
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About a year ago (not sure if it was here or on RGTs forums) some guy came up with a great way to do weather via scrolling textures on a plain. Sounds like it wouldnt work right? But it did! He gave out the source for everyone to see. Oh why oh why didnt I keep it... Anyway Ive searched all over the forums and cant find it again. Id really like to use it for my game.

Anyone know how to do weather via that way? Scrolling black/white texture?
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dalmonar
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if u mean in 3d all u need do is to make a huge sphere and set the cull to show texture on the inside and texture it with a sky image according to the weather pattern u want.then all u need do is spin it on each loop.
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AzureZeal
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No no no Im not talking about a sky sphere, im talking about real weather, like rain/snow. Rather than having 100s of individual plains falling from the sky, he used just a few plains and scrolled a texture on them. Because the texture was black and white you only saw the rain/snow. Looked great. I want to do something like that. Just looking for advice

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MikeS
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Posted: 9th Jul 2003 05:15
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You can do whether like this(look in source box)

That's the only way I know how to do it, but I think that's what you've tried?Is it not?



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Willy
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Posted: 9th Jul 2003 06:45 Edited at: 9th Jul 2003 06:47
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Hmmmm....
Well, there is a DB Pro demo program, with source, that shows a side-scroller of an airplane flying over hills and shooting stuff.....
1. Change the background scrolling from horizontal to vertical, and
2. Change the texture to white snowflakes on a transparent black background (use a paint program....)

That should get you closer to what you want....

You might still have a problem since you are scrolling the background. Maybe not - it might look just fine....
If not - it might be possible to turn off writes to the Z-buffer for
just those writes. Dunno....
If you can get this to work, it would probably be more efficient than
trying to use a particle generator.

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AzureZeal
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"look in the source box"? you mean the help file? What exactly is the name of the program again? ill take a look at it

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Posted: 9th Jul 2003 18:24
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"look in the source box"
That means click the button "Source" under the message. Then the code will pop up. You are some kind of a noob or what? sorry... Don't take that personally

Current project: Dodge Viper Car Game (Not named yet) Other car models are going to be included soon
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AzureZeal
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Heh yes im a forum newb. Anyway I had no idea there was a special "snow" particle command, ill look into that. But I still imagine it would be faster to use the scrolling texture method. Nobody remembers that one guy who wrote the source for it?

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MikeS
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Posted: 9th Jul 2003 21:58
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There's also one for fire particles

(look in the source box)

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Posted: 9th Jul 2003 22:05
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yeah! I recall it, that was over on RGT though, they had a thread on weather and it ended up with loads of people making snippets for rain, snow and whatever, I think one of those was what you wanted, (RGT has a search feature too, just select 9999 as the number of results you want...it`s weird like that).

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