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I have 2 questions related to bzflages partical engine.

1 When giving rain a texture (like bullets instead of raindrops) am I limited with the textures that come with bz? or can I use external textures from other places on the internet.

2 Is there anyway to make rain have a speed of 0 (in other words not moving (using speed 0 makes it go insanely fast)) I want the raindrops to spawn and then stay stationary?

hutty

An answer to question number 2.... Use _rainSpeed and _rainSpeedMod *I think* to adjust the rain speed.

Apple and linux can use downloaded textures for rain and puddle texture. Windows clients cannot. This is more of a bug than a feature, it's kinda an accident that it works at all.

I think the slowest you can set _rainSpeed and _rainSpeedMod is 0.0001. BZFlag ignores anything beyond four decimal places. This is true everywhere in bzflag map files. I'm not sure what a setting of zero will do.

thanks for the info,
too bad win clients cant
I was going to put still rain on the ground textured as grass.

Why not just use a textured mesh instead

You could then use any texture you want and it would be stationary unless you add drawinfo's angvel

or if you just want a different ground texture you could just add a GroundMaterial to your map file.

Why not just use a textured mesh instead

how?

or if you just want a different ground texture you could just add a GroundMaterial to your map file.

yes, but I wanted 3d grass that poofed up from the ground, not a 2d texture.

huttymuncher wrote:

Why not just use a textured mesh instead

how?

or if you just want a different ground texture you could just add a GroundMaterial to your map file.

yes, but I wanted 3d grass that poofed up from the ground, not a 2d texture.

If you are intending to make 3D grass, that would be a textured mesh. Yet you don't know how to make a textured mesh?

I thought he meant using small meshes as the rain drops (can that be done?)

as for using a mesh as grass, wouldn't that be very very very resource killing?

Yet you don't know how to make a textured mesh?

yes I do know how to make a textured mesh (in wings and in code) I am, however, not very good at it.

make it drawinfo, and all the problems are solved.

drawinfo?????
how?
why?

all I know about drawinfo is spinning objects and LOD