Create Sand Storms & Snow Environments!

This tutorial is short, sweet and to the point. First off have to thank everyone who posts on this site for helping me to get it figured out. To use this tutorial you must have Torque 1.3.0. Make sure that in game.cs you have included this file, ( exec("./environment.cs"); ) The environment.cs file can be found in the example included with Torque.

Paste the following code into environment.cs I would put it right after the heavy rain code, just to keep it all together. What this is going to do is bring down some snow. At the end of my tutorial you can get the PNG file I used. What this does is uses my custom snow texture, with the rain water splash. The rain water splash looks good with snow, so why not use it :)

datablock PrecipitationData(Snow)
{
soundProfile = "";
dropTexture = "~/data/environment/snow";
splashTexture = "~/data/environment/water_splash";
dropSize = 0.45;
splashSize = 0.2;
useTrueBillboards = false;
splashMS = 250;
};

Now after the snow code lets paste in the sand code. The sand is basically the same code. All I have done differently is used a different texture and removed the splash. Sand doesnt look right when it has a splash so I have taken the splashing functions out.

datablock PrecipitationData(Sand)
{
soundProfile = "";
dropTexture = "~/data/environment/sand2";
dropSize = 1.45;
useTrueBillboards = false;
};

Now if you go into the game and press F11 and then F4 and select precipitation you can select from 3 possible options. Heavyrain, Snow & Sandstorm. Hopefully this helps people in getting environment effects in game. I know I had alot of trials and fun getting it into my game.

NOTE: The attaged image is one jpeg, so just make it into 2 pngs, one called sand2 and one called snow and drop them into your data/environment folder and you are good to go. I would have included a complete zip, but dont know how :) M next tutorial should be a better one, I hope this helps people!