Rain Drop Effect Script

[dmakatra]

Hello!

This script ain't nessecary much but I think it really impresses the player when he sees it (kinda like Vektorbosons chopper dust). It creates drop particles to rainy missions. I've attatched a zip file with a test mission and the script it self.

It is NOT MP compatible.

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[j-man]

I'm gona try this one out. BTW, how much lag does this cause?

[dmakatra]

It's in a very fast loop and it creates a large number of particles each second. However, the particles gets deleted very fast and you can lower down both range and heavyness to reduce lag.

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EDIT: Actually, I came up with this idea a year ago, when I just read Vektorbosons tute about Drop effects. I had some problems with getting it working then. So I picked it up now recentley yesterday and got it working. So there ain't much "pretty" code as most code is noob code from a year ago.

[Uldics]

The original rain in OFP is just in one plane some 2 m in front of the player. When using 3d glasses it's very unrealistic to see rain only at one distance from your face. So this would be a very good solution to that.

[sim]

hey

Sounds nice, I'll test it later...

sim

[DBR_ONIX]

Dito what sim said
It take it doesn't lag your comp, Armsty? What sorta spec?
- Ben

[dmakatra]

3 GHZ so I can't be sure there.

But as I said, you don't really need a greater distance than 5 meter and it can be set that low so it shouldn't be a problem

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[Nemesis6]

Very nice. Could you make it water compatible, too? I could do this myself, but I guess I'm too lazy! :-/

[dmakatra]

Cheers for your input but I'm not sure what you mean? Water compatible?

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[DBR_ONIX]

Maybe he means when it hits water, is splashes or something?
Oh, could the script be modified to look like snow?

I've gotta learn the drop command one day


Oh, I tried it, but it didn't work that well as (I think this is the problem) I was using the FDF mod..
I'll try running it without the mod today at somepoint
- Ben

[dmakatra]

Snow don't exactly splash but I can create snow dingling down if you want to.

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[Cool Z]

Am I right in guessing that some of the Ballistic addon demo missions use a custom rain script??

[Nemesis6]

Nope.

[FormatC]

Ive tried this running my PC with,  gf-5700fx ,512ddr and 2gig processor.
I gotta say this is fantastic.. the splash effects are great and the rain really does make you wanna stay in doors.. Im using it with my own added sound effects on my campaign on tonali.  The rainy season looks so good now Im using this. thx for the script its pretty much lag free and was exactly what I was looking for.
All we need next is a swirling sandstorm using same amount of particles and my weather needs will be complete.  ;D
great job

[dmakatra]

Glad you liked it. The sandstorm could be much harder. I'll see what I can do though.

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