Rain... anyone know enough LUA to do it?

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 26 Jul 2007, 15:31

To save resing an old thread and to make this more prominent...

Can anybody create a rain shader in LUA? Please?

trepan has allready created a grovy snow shader thing in LUA, however, nothing I can do with it would be able to generate passable rain. It could easily be adjusted however by someone that understands how to program LUA... its just I'm not that person.

Does anyone feel up to using it? It will definatly be used if you do, and would let use do other cool stuff liek acid rain on acid worlds...

Anyway heres a link to the snow one:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtop ... 4&start=40

If no one wants to do it then I'll just have to leave it out...

aGorm

Post by **trepan** » 26 Jul 2007, 15:35

It requires as much knowledge of GL and GLSL
shaders as it does of lua and the Spring lua interface.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 27 Jul 2007, 09:49

Does that mean your the only one that can pull it off??

I didn't want to be stuck badgering you cause you have more important stuff to do!

aGorm

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 27 Jul 2007, 10:22

Maybe if you offer up a bribe of your super sekrit tree map to test it on (cause we all know thats what you want it for) another capable person, or at least close to capable and thus able to quickly learn, will wiggle out of the woodwork.

Post by **trepan** » 27 Jul 2007, 13:36

aGorm:
No, I don't mean that I'm the only one that can pull it off.
I was clarifying the requirements for anyone who wanted
to take a crack at it. The GL and GLSL specs are free to
download at opengl.org

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 27 Jul 2007, 14:53

Well if there is anyone then yes they can of course have a sneek peek at the map befor i release it.

aGorm

Satirik · Post by **Satirik** » 27 Jul 2007, 15:04

no rain ! who the hell want to see rain in game ? rain is pissing us enough in the real world !

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Jul 2007, 15:24

I'd suggest looking at the snow thing if it was released. Rain isn't much different.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 27 Jul 2007, 15:31

Take it you didn't read my most or click the link...

aGorm

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 27 Jul 2007, 17:02

read my most, heh...

Yeah, rain ingame would be pretty sweet...

AF · Post by AF » 27 Jul 2007, 17:06

imo your tree map wouldnt benefit from rain and it could be argued that the rain would be a gimmick. Great for screenshots, bad for gameplay.

I think trees that blow in the wind and other movement effects in the forest trees would be much much better.

Agon · Post by **Agon** » 27 Jul 2007, 17:14

yeah wind would be good! Maybe rain as an area effect.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 27 Jul 2007, 18:52

aGorm wrote:Take it you didn't read my most or click the link... :P

aGorm

lol no, only the bits in the beginning while rapidly scrolling down... :P

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 27 Jul 2007, 19:03

I'll take a look at it in a few days if nobody else pops up for the task, but I make no promises.

Satirik · Post by **Satirik** » 27 Jul 2007, 19:10

i didn't :) acid rain could be cool =)

Pendrokar · Post by **Pendrokar** » 27 Jul 2007, 19:40

Satirik wrote:i didn't :) acid rain could be cool =)

Like a mobile cloud? HMM

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 28 Jul 2007, 02:22

I dunno AF; the weather effects in the Total War series really set the mood in the game. THey were also able to affect the gameplay, which could be an interesting element in itself (tank units get bogged down in the rain while walking units don't, units become more inaccurate, etc.

That being said, I'd much rather aGorm spent his time texturing, so no, no rain!

Warlord Zsinj · Post by **Warlord Zsinj** » 29 Jul 2007, 10:34

I was thinking about this the other day, and I think it's not such a good idea if this is hooked to a bit of LUA on a single mappers map.

I think it would be far better if there were a generalised weather system using LUA in Spring, so that any mapper can utilise (or not) the weather system as they want, tweaking weather values to get the effect they are after.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 29 Jul 2007, 18:30

Either way, it's still pretty far down my list.

aGorm · Post by **aGorm** » 30 Jul 2007, 10:17

Any mapper could put the rain in tehre map, its just in a folder called LUAGaia
(or somthing I have no PC right now, my laptop is bust, my pc is bust... and i have no time to reinstall things cause my mates getting marrid next weekend... crazy times)

And you can twek valuse to your hearts content to make it spcific to your map. Only reason I wanted it is because the tree map is SUCH a good glam shot map, it would be nice if it showcased the most advanced effects. I was contempolating releasing a version without rain as well.

aGorm

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Rain... anyone know enough LUA to do it?

Rain... anyone know enough LUA to do it?