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A snow question.
2004-04-04, 1:09 PM #1
Is there a way to change the direction of the snow falling in MP of JA? I need the snow to fall downward. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/confused.gif]

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2004-04-04, 1:19 PM #2
i believe that has to be hard coded. i could be wrong, though.

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2004-04-04, 1:41 PM #3
Poop [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

The snow on SP Hoth is different than regular snow though (different dirrection). Hmm.

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2004-04-05, 4:08 AM #4
those maps have .weather files. i'll dig around and see if i can figure anything out.
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2004-04-05, 4:27 AM #5
...well, i haven't been able to find anything other than the fact that .weather files to control advanced weather effects. i have no idea if they can be opened, nor what language they are written in.
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2004-04-05, 10:41 AM #6
Hmm. I guess I have to look into .weather files.

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2004-04-06, 7:27 AM #7
I found the .weather file but I can't edit it. Is it editable in the editor?

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2004-04-06, 5:04 PM #8
I can't find anything out about that file format... it's really weird usually Raven releases file format information. Like BSP and MD3 file formats have been released. Theres nothing apparent unfortuatly [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif] it's all in hex, and since we're not even sure what the thing does exactly it's hard to figure out.

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2004-04-07, 3:30 AM #9
i'm sure it's nothing more than the coordinates of the area of weather, the fx file used, and the direction, speed, and density of the file. i can't imagine what more could be needed. anywho, i did do a little more digging for a project i'm working on, and i haven't really been able to find anything new.

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2004-04-07, 6:33 AM #10
Hmm. The direction and speed part is what I'm looking for [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

I wonder what Raven did.

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2004-04-07, 10:57 AM #11
Try fx_wind. I think that it will affect direction of snow (+ add special animation)

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2004-04-15, 8:34 PM #12
i think there are keys not mentioned in the editor. you could experiment with things like count, wind, and direction to see.

i'm pretty sure that the .weather file is something that the game generates the first time a map is loaded that tells it where the weatherzones are, and helps it load that map faster from then on. (so you wouldn't even have to include it in a pk3)
2004-04-16, 12:19 AM #13
Silverwest is right about the weather files, i just ran a quick test to try it out. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]
2004-04-16, 9:06 AM #14
But where do you put the keys? In the fx_snow?

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2004-04-16, 4:09 PM #15
This is going to have to be a tut on Massassi. Gothix, we have work to do. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2004-04-19, 4:20 AM #16
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Most of the weather effects throughout the game ended up being hard coded in. The engine was just not doing what we wanted with the simple use of entities. You can certainly do more in SP than you can in MP, but the weather system was changed after we did the levels and there was no new documentation that alllowed us to see what was done. I know all of my levels went from being entity driven to hard coded. I had some odd weather effects that just could not be pulled off efficiently with entities. Hoth2 is a perfect example. The snow comes down in various densities and the wind changes directions as you wander through the level.

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2004-04-19, 5:06 AM #17
oh. Thanks anyway. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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