Problem with rain and snow

#21 Ok, I've had a look at the sound as well, it wasn't working but here's one that does (TGE 1.3):


datablock AudioProfile(RainLoop1)
{
filename = "~/data/sound/environment/ambient/rain_light_1.wav";
description = AudioLooping2D; // Now if you check your audioProfiles.cs (in server/scripts) thats where the descriptions defined.
// I found that in Desmond Fletcher's tutorial AudioLooping2D was misspelled
// (AudioLooping2d, notice the lower case d.)
};


You could also add enviroment (take a AudioEnvironment object) and preload (boolean) attributes.
I haven't played around with the AudioEnvironment yet, but you can check it out (and the other audio related stuff
in the engine/audio/audioDataBlock.cc source file (look for the addField calls).

In the same way you can review the engine/game/fx/precipitation.cc for how PrecipitationData datablock works.

Well for those guys using doxygen to role their own documentation this isn't an issue but if you (as I did) read the online documentation it is not updated (august 2005) to reflect changes in these datablocks interfaces.

#22 Thanks for the update Johan.

Anyone happen to have a rain png I could play with?

#23 @Shawn - Have emailed you a rain.png, water_splash.png and rain.dml.

It works for me using Johan's updates above.

#24 I have white blocks and nothing is working

#25 Check your console for errors.

#26 I did...not a single one

#27 What program are you using to export .png?

#28 I had this problem and it turned out to be the .png files I was using. I replaced them with the rain .png's from the Torque Demo and it was OK. It must be something to do with the format of the png's.

#29 The *.png format is pretty simple really:

24bit with transparency

If you're in Photoshop make sure you turn off the background or delete it altogether so you have a transparent background. Not sure about other software but I'm thinking they must work in a similiar way.

When I first started using them (many moons ago) I had similiar problems but because I forgot to get rid of the background layer in Photoshop.

Hope this helps

#30 So having it at 16 bit could be the problem?

#31 I would guess so. Have you tried it at 24bit?

#32 Hi,

try "export for web or save for web" with pngs , solved all my aplha issues.

Good luck!

Berndt

#33 I dont understand what i did but i got it to work...i use a mist dml but rain dml doesn't work....so i pointed straight to the png and it came out ok

#34 Hi all, would anyone know here what to change to make the rain fall vertically down insted of from an angle? I have looked inside the Precipitation.cc and can't see where it gets the angle from

#35 Wow, thread necro going on here. You can change that in the .mis file containing the effects.

Find the Sky object and look for this:

windVelocity = "1 1 0";
windEffectPrecipitation = "1";

Setting windEffectPrecipitation = "0" should help out. Changing the windVelocity vector will cause the rain to come down at different angles.

#36 Thanks worked perfectly ^^