I recently put a rain cog in my level (The one in the Massassi cog section). However, I would like the rain go through the player instead of touching/bumping into the player. How do I do this?

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

I think this is a template problem. I don't know what your template is but try setting "collide" of the raindrops to 0.

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

Here's the template:

orient=(0/0/0)
type=weapon
collide=1
move=physics
movesize=0.01
surfdrag=3
airdrag=1
mass=25
height=0.011
physflags=0x404041
buoyancy=0
thingflags=0x20000000
typeflags=0x1


I tried Collide=0 but then the raindrops didn't show. I'm thinking it's the "type=weapon" part that is making the rain 'solid'...Am I right?

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

[This message has been edited by Shockaz (edited February 21, 2004).]

You could try setting the movesize to 0...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

You could imitate a particle template. Like the saber sparks. Only set the amount of dots to one. That could work.

It still didn't work. If it's of any help, here's the rain templates I used.


# BBOX: 0 0 0 0 0 0

template: _rain
parent: none

orient=(0/0/0)
type=weapon
collide=1
move=physics
movesize=0.01
surfdrag=3
airdrag=1
mass=25
height=0.011
physflags=0x404041
buoyancy=0
thingflags=0x20000000
typeflags=0x1


# BBOX: -.01341 -.149802 -.01341 .01341 .015603 .01341

template: raindrop
parent: _rain

sprite=raindrop.spr
size=0.005
movesize=0.005
typeflags=0x20000d
thingflags=0x20000001
explode=+watersplash
timer=5

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

[This message has been edited by Shockaz (edited February 22, 2004).]

Question though - why don't you want it to collide with the player? Real rain collides with real people.

While I only know of one way for this to work (the projectile has to fire from the player), it'd be way easier and much cooler if you just had a separate explosion for when it hit the player.

Well, when the rain touches me, it bumps into me, slowing me down. It's like running into a wall sometimes, and I don't like that. This is why I want the player not to be able to touch the rain. This way, nobody would notice whether a raindrop would have hit them or not. Isn't it possible to make the rain passable, like with secret surfaces (Able to see the surface but also able to walk through it). After all...the raindrops are a mat...

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

Raindrops are indeed a mat, but they are not the same as level geometry.
And I would've thought the saber sparks idea would work. Hmm...

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I am Darth Slaw.
The Dark Lord of the Sith,
And part of the Nightfire mod team

[This message has been edited by Darth Slaw (edited February 22, 2004).]

Well, to tell you the truth, I probably did it incorrectly. I'm still going to try to get the rain working, and if any of you know how to do it, please reply. Thanks

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

Question - is it necessary that they make explosions when they hit the ground?

If you need it to be dynamic this could be hard, but if it'll only rain in certain places there's many easy ways to do this.

Yup, I'm trying to make the rain have an explosion when it hits the ground along with the rain not touching the player (see above posts if you don't understand what I mean). Also, I have ghost positions for the raindrops, so it'll just rain in the outside areas. I just can't get the template to work the way I want it to. Any help would be appreciated.

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Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.