Hey Mappers Good Idea For Outdoor Maps!

EGAMAN · July 2004

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ok how about rain for outdoor maps
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it would be great!

EGAMAN · July 2004

i bet you can even make it snow if u edited the sprites!

aegix · July 2004

Or we could just use a particle system.

Check out <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73493&hl=co_niveus' target='_blank'>this map</a> if you want to see a working snow particle system.

GiGaBiTe · July 2004

yeh, good idea but wrong mod. and the way you described making the rain it would be very difficult to make it an official map because there is a limit of the number of ents that you can use.

the particle system is a better way to make rain, but i always find it difficult to use lol.

Windelkron · July 2004

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Swiftspear · July 2004

NOES
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Hypergrip · July 2004

Using the particle system would be a way better way to create rain (see daimos secret room for example) or snow (outdoor areas on ns_ayumi). You can create a rain/snow system covering a huge area with a minimum of entities (instead of 125125 env_beams and stuff) and because the origin on the raindrops is chosen by random it doesn't look repetative.

/Hyper

Lordy · July 2004

more like bad idea to make an outside map D:

Windelkron · July 2004

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Kester · July 2004

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was there any need in either of these posts =]

Or this one for that matter?

but yeah on a related note, did u not think that most of the mappers here wud kno that anyhoo? and plus ns has a very gud working PS

Huze · July 2004

I looked at it earlier, it used 2 or 3 entities per <b>drop</b> of rain, which is way too much in anything except an extremely small area.

Mouse · July 2004

Everyone always forgets hydrosity. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Particle system driven rain with splash effects, using only 3 entities for one rainy area. An additional 2 entities are required for each rainy area that you make beyod the first one.

Shall I do a tutorial?

Zor · July 2004

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yes please do a tutorial for us. I know i would personaly like to know how to do this with the particale system.

Emoo · July 2004

particle system is good for outdoors because it can do rain (and other weather) and grass and stuff.

Anyone who wants to make the grass, can just get a particle system spawn it in a box just obove the area you want it, have particle lifetime to -0 (infinte) give it a small grass like sprite, then set constrain pitch and gravity. Just need to work out a way of stopping them from going though the floor.

Mouse · July 2004

Mmmk, I'll get started on one soonish.
(too busy atm, don't start holding your breath)

Pash · July 2004

tutorial.. that'd be great im working on an outdoor map right now <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73879&st=0' target='_blank'>co_cityassault</a> .

Im about 1/4 the way through and rain would be just perfect for it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />.
Not that good right now, so im not sure if i would be able to do anything complex like that...
so ill either have a try and fail or ask som1 else to set one up and send it me.

Dorian_Gray · July 2004

Really not that hard to do... I made ayumi-esque snow in just a few minutes with Ripent (to see what some of the velocities were like since mine wasn't working properly at first) and NSPSEdit (thread is <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69209' target='_blank'>here</a>)

As for this method of making rain.... why use 3 entities per drop when you can use 3 for the whole thing?

Hey Mappers Good Idea For Outdoor Maps!

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