SYN DEMO: Weather effects - snow and rain

synthesis

Here is a demo I just made.
It uses animated tiles as a texture to simulate snow or rain.
Very lightweight on the game. Adjust the actor rotation for different angles and the animation frame rate for speed of fall.

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/77808

JackBQuick

Cool! Looking forward to getting home and seeing what you've done.

UtopianGames

The rain is really cool

Darren.

AppChogie

that is very impressive like Darren I like the rain the best, great work!

hrsmedia

Nicely done..

synthesis

By customizing the image tiles in the animation...you can create your own effect style and weather density.

The textures are 128x128 and adjust at 16 pixels down in each animation frame giving 8 texture cells in each animation.

To build the textures (in Photoshop)...make a graphic 128wide x 256 tall. Then make the top half and the bottom half of the graphic identical. Then before export...change the image size to 128x128 with the reduction to the bottom center. Then adjust the texture art by 16 pixels downward for each frame export.

Use the actor to adjust angle and speed.

chosenonestudios

WOW, sounds amazing! Could you post some pictures for the few of us that don't get our Macs back till tomorrow?

JackBQuick

@chosenonestudios -

Here's rain:



...and snow:



What happened to your Mac?

chosenonestudios

JackBQuick said:
@chosenonestudios -

Here's rain:



...and snow:



What happened to your Mac?

Thanks Jack!

Oh, I went to my dads house (for one day). There wasnt a point in bringing it over, even though I should've. I'm going back tomorrow though so I'll have it then!

juzcook

nice one man! this idea could come in handy

ORBZ

Nice work syn

DreamWorld

Rain is good but Snow it isn't! But I love it!
Thxn syn

iTouchGamer

Can I have the files of this please?

tenrdrmer

Open the link and right click on the download button. please stop reviving old threads.

iTouchGamer

Great man thanks!

iTouchGamer

Also, I know this may sound like the stupidest question in the world, but how do I get the seen on my already created game?

I tried copy-paste, and holding option-dragging, but when I preview it, it's always a white screen....

jonmulcahy

you can either recreate it manually or buy Darren's project merge application

tenrdrmer

your best bet would be buy darrens project merger. Otherwise you are going to need to copy Actors and then scenes and then go through each actor and reset any game and scene attribute the demo uses. thats a very tedious task depending on the demo.

If you want The project merger take a look on the marketplace and you should be able to find a link to where you can purchase it.

iTouchGamer

Ok, I'll check it out. Thanks guys! And sorry for bringing up this old thread.