Falling stars

(Lucky) #1

Hey guys i got an idea for my new map.

I want to let it rain stars. Because i am making a mario map:).
Anyone got an idea? :P.
Or is it impossible.

Greets Lucky

(Qualmi) #2

hi lucky,

you could do 3 things i can imagine.

  1. creating a star model and let it pass across the sky with some scriptig commands.

  2. create a simple brush with startextures and make it scriptmover (also script)

  3. create a shader

last thing im not good at, but first 2 things could be possible. but ofc this has a price. players will probably lag if you start letting the models or scriptmovers fall down. depends…

edit: ofc there might be other ways too

(Lucky) #3

Thanks for the reply.

What is was thinking of is making a rain shader and modifie it so it will fall stars, If this is possible ;P.

Hoping for more reply’s

Greets Lucky

(Lucky) #4

Sorry for the doublepost.

I already made the rain shader

textures/rain/rain
{
		qer_editorimage textures/rain/rain2.tga
		deformVertexes autosprite2
		surfaceparm nolightmap
		surfaceparm nomarks
		surfaceparm nonsolid
		surfaceparm trans
		cull disable
		qer_trans 0.5
		{
			map textures/rain/rain2.tga
			blendFunc blend
			rgbGen identity
			tcMod scale 3 3
			tcMod scroll 0.1 -2
			tcMod turb 1 0.01 0 0.1
		}
}

Can this be edited for stars ?

(Zer0Cool) #5

mayby you can add rain or snow and then use the remapshader-command to change it into stars, but then it would be “raining” all the time. I dont know how it looks in the game Mario.
Is it permanent? is it everywhere or just at a single place?

(Lucky) #6

I want it every were.
And i dont know what the remapshader-command is :(.

Greets

(-SSF-Sage) #7

You can use atmospheric effects to make normal rain. http://tramdesign.planetwolfenstein.gamespy.com/tutorials/etdocs/index.html Remember that this can be turned off with cg_atmosphericeffects 0 or such cmd.

Also remember that you need a proper tracemap: /devmap mapname, /developer 1 and /generatetracemap. And the mapcoords has to be square to make a tracemap.

Then you can use remapshader to change the shader from raindrop to a star. Remapshader is a script command (.script file) you can change from one shader to another.

(Lucky) #8

And can anybody help me with the remapshader thingie?.

Greets

(th0rn3) #9

remapshader [old shader] [new shader]
remapshaderflush

(Lucky) #10

[QUOTE=th0rn3;187421]remapshader [old shader] [new shader]
remapshaderflush[/QUOTE]

Ye but i dont know that either :P.
Could someone just explain it step for step.
I know how to make rain. So you can skip that.

(th0rn3) #11

Open notepad copy an paste this:


game_manager
{
	spawn
	{
		wait 50
		wm_axis_respawntime 2		// Axis respawn time
		wm_allied_respawntime 2		// Allied respawn time
		wm_set_round_timelimit 15	// Map timelimit
		
		// Stopwatch mode defending team (0=Axis, 1=Allies)
		wm_set_defending_team 0
		
		// Winner on expiration of round timer (0=Axis, 1=Allies)
		wm_setwinner 0
		
		wait 100
		
		remapshader [path to shader that you want to change] [path to shader to replace that on the left]
		remapshaderflush
	}
}

Then save everything as [your map name].script in your maps folder

(Lucky) #12

Ye but i still dont know what you mean with this line tss.

	remapshader [path to shader that you want to change] [path to shader to replace that on the left]
		remapshaderflush
(Lucky) #13

Sorry for double post.

	remapshader scripts/rain.shader [path to shader to replace that on the left]

But i still dont get this [path to shader to replace that on the left]

Thanks.

(Berzerkr) #14

First you have to make a shader for the texture(s) you want to replace later with the remapshader.

path/to/texture
{
	cull none
	{
		map path/to/texture.jpg
		rgbGen lightingDiffuse
	}
}

Then use this in your map-script:

remapshader "path/to/texture" "path/to/texture2"

Keep in mind this is only a example to show what you have to do, for your case the shader must be different (transparency and other stuff).

(Lucky) #15

Thanks. I still need to figure it out i also got a weird problem with my rain :S.
Its raining only on the corners of the rain brush and not in the brush.

Also my rain is going upwards :S

(Pande) #16

did you go in to the game, type /developer 1 in console, then /generatetracemap?

(Lucky) #17

Yes i did and the rain is still going weird.

Remember, i made my own rain shader for it.

(IndyJones) #18

post video.