HOW TO MAKE IT RAIN! (help)

yourmom · Post by **yourmom** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:37 am

i am an admin for my server and i need to know the easiest way to make it rain. there are so many rain variables!

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:47 am

set _rainType to rain
that will set the other vars to defaults

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:13 am

my personal favorite is /set _rainType frog

that just cracks me up.

tw1sted · Post by **tw1sted** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:18 pm

yea i love the frog rain.

and to change the color of the rain, after u typed:

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/set _rainType rain

type

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/set _rainBaseColor color

where color would be the color of your choice. Red would be an example

Longhair · Post by **Longhair** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:21 pm

Be sure to check out the bzflag wiki for more information on server variables:
http://bzflag.org/wiki/ServerVariables

As the disclaimer at the top says, some things are incomplete, or downright wrong, but the rain related stuff seems to be accurate.

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:06 pm

A Heart Attack wrote:yea i love the frog rain.

and to change the color of the rain, after u typed:
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/set _rainType rain
type
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/set _rainBaseColor color
where color would be the color of your choice. Red would be an example

I think that color was only added so that the emos could use black rain and the goths could use red.

Goths must be the coolest people ever.

yourmom · Post by **yourmom** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:58 pm

so is there like bubbles, snow, frog, rain, and what else?

thanks

meeba · Post by **meeba** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:59 pm

particle

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 6:38 pm

you can change the texture on the billboard and snowflake shapes to your needs, those combinatioins should give you many difrent options.

Spazzy McGee · Post by **Spazzy McGee** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:22 pm

You can check out all of the server variables here: http://www.bzflag.org/wiki/ServerVariables

I'll tell you this for free: there is also another little search feature called Google. you can use that too.

^nightmare^ · Post by **^nightmare^** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 3:13 pm

/set _rainType fatrain

u can also control how much it rains with /set _rainDensity

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:16 pm

I just added a ton of rain stuff to the Wiki, check back there again.

Legolas_ · Post by **Legolas_** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:00 pm

You should try:

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/set _rainTexture red_bolt

after you do that type:

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/set _rainType red_bolt

Any texture that is in your bzflag directory can be set to rain texture.

G-MAN · Post by **G-MAN** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:23 pm

do this: /set _rainType frog then /set _rainPuddle red. I think that's how you do it. Rain lags a server up pretty bad.

TD-Linux · Post by **TD-Linux** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:05 pm

Rain only lowers your framerate drastically if you have _rainDensity set too high. See the wiki.

To texture rain fancylike, /set _rainType to snow,fatrain,frog,or anything else on the wiki except 'rain'.

AFTER that, you /set _rainTexture.

Or, you can do it the long way around and /set _useRainBillboards 1.

yourmom · Post by **yourmom** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 6:02 am

what are the rain textures?

Tanner · Post by **Tanner** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 11:25 am

yourmom wrote:what are the rain textures?

Anything in the data folder of the BZFlag folder and I think it also may include any texture that is hosted.

-Tanner

tw1sted · Post by **tw1sted** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:13 pm

Legolas_ wrote:You should try:
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/set _rainTexture red_bolt
after you do that type:
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/set _rainType red_bolt
Any texture that is in your bzflag directory can be set to rain texture.

so you could do

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/set _rainTexture blue_bolt

if that was in your bzflag dir (witch it is)