Rain/Weather Effects

Kitsune86 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 03 Oct 2008

I did not want to necro-post on this one:
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?highlight=weather&t=15073

Has anyone figured this out? I know we have a buildmap.bat in the mod sdk, but I have not a clue how to use that, if it would even help, and most of the rest of the internet is not too useful.

ravage · Soldier **Joined**: 16 Jul 2005

is it possable to add StartingUnit* to FactionCivilian in PlayerTemplate.ini? if we can, then a ParticleSystem dummyobject can be added to anymap without using buildmap.bat

Ju-Jin · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 10:02 am Post subject:

You can compile the map like in the image below, note MyMap is the map name.
In the overrides.xml add: (you have to replace '(' and ')' with '<' and '>' respectively because of the forum)

Code:

(Weather id="Weather")
   (Snow
      SnowTexture = "FXRainDrop"
      SnowFrequencyScaleX = "0"
      SnowFrequencyScaleY = "0"
      SnowAmplitude = "0"
      SnowPointSize = "1.0"
      SnowMinPointSize = "60.0"
      SnowMaxPointSize = "120.0"
      SnowQuadSize = "8.0"
      SnowBoxHeight = "300.0"
      SnowSpacing = "12.0"
      SnowSpeed = "100.0"
      SnowPointSprites = "false"

      SnowEnabled = "true"
      IsSnowing = "false"
      NumberTiles = "4" /)
   (Rain
      RainTexture = "FXRainDrop"
      IsRaining = "true"
      NumRaindropsPerBox = "1024"
RainBoxWidth = "1000.0"
RainBoxLength = "1000.0"
RainBoxHeight = "300.0"
MinWidth = "1"
MaxWidth = "4"
MinHeight = "25.0"
MaxHeight = "100.0"
MinSpeed = "250.0"
MaxSpeed = "450.0"
MinAlpha = ".2"
MaxAlpha = ".5"
WindStrength = "1.0" /)
   (Lightning
      LightningEnabled = "true"
      LightningDuration = "30"
      LightningChance = "0.1")
      (LightningFactor
         Type = "UNIFORM"
         Low = "0.5"
         High = "3.0" /)
   (/Lightning)
   (Spell
      SpellEnabled = "true"
      SpellDuration = "200" /)
   (Cloud)
      (CloudTextureSize x="660.0" y="660.0" /)
      (CloudOffsetPerSecond x="-.03" y="-.02" /)
   (/Cloud)
   (WeatherData id="RAINY" HasLightning="true" /)
   (WeatherData id="CLOUDYRAINY" HasLightning="true" /)
   (WeatherData id="SUNNY" HasLightning="false" /)
   (WeatherData id="CLOUDY" HasLightning="false" /)
(/Weather)

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Kitsune86 · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 03 Oct 2008

Thank you for the code, Ju-Jin. I've been trying to recompile an existing map just to see if I can add in the rain effect, and it crashes every time, and oddly deletes the source files when its done. Is it possible to add rain to an existing map, or do I need to try to start from scratch?

I looked through some tutorials but nothing I found seemed to talk about the buildmap.bat.