[REL] Snow 1.0.3

[Remp]

This resource creates a fully customisable snowing effect

Download: https://community.multitheftauto.com/index.php?p= ... ils&id=538

Example video (with "cartoon" type snow):

To activate the snow, hold down ctrl and press s (or type /snow). Do this again to stop the snow

To access and manipulate the snow settings, hold down shift and press s (or type /snowsettings)

If you experience lag with snow, reduce the settings to a more comfortable level

Settings:

- Snow density

- Snow type ("real" or "cartoon")

- Snow wind direction

- Snow wind speed

- Snow fall speed

- Snowflake size

- Snowflake jitter

Exported functions (clientside):

- updateSnowType(type) - "real" or "cartoon"

- updateSnowDensity(new_density, blend) - blend indicates whether the new density should blend into the old density, rather than just appear all at once

- updateSnowWindDirection(x, y) - between 1 and 0

- updateSnowWindSpeed(speed)

- updateSnowflakeSize(min_size, max_size)

- updateSnowJitter(true/false)

- startSnow()

- stopSnow()

- setGuiEnabled(enabled) - true or false (this controls whether players will have access to their own snow settings gui, also available in the meta.xml)

- setSnowToggle(enabled) - true or false (this controls whether players will be able to turn the snow on and off, also available in the meta.xml)

Edited September 18, 2011 by Guest

[uhmpr0]

is nice

and christmas etc etc

[Mr.Hankey]

Very nicely done

Though you may want to make the flakes jitter horizontally a bit to make it look even better.

[SATAN]

thats why i love mta so much, awesome

[madis]

Looks like you've put a lot of detail in it (the Wind GUI also looks great). Well done!

[Dark Dragon]

really really cool, even better, just awesome! now i agree that someone has to create a resource which replaces all the sextures of gta to make them snowy

the only thing i've noticed which could be done better is: it seems when you look from above the falling flakes stay at the same size. they would need to get smaller. opposite when looking up from below.

edit: but in the video you stretched 4:3 to wide screen

[Remp]

Hankey: in my experience of snow (which being a brit is about once every 3 years ) this doesnt actually happen. i did briefly toy around with writing some code to automatically generate wind patterns to give it a bit more energy, so theoretically you could add horizontal waving through the exported functions if you wanted

Dragon: yes, 4:3 on youtubes HD setting looks silly, it barely takes up half the available space so i stretched it to fill a little better. currently there are no size alterations at all based on distance/perspective, id have liked to add them in but its a question of speed over features. the less things we compute every frame the higher snow density people will be able to have (this is also why things like ground detection and seeing snow through objects are not very accurate)

Edited September 14, 2010 by Guest

[madis]

There's an interesting feature you have, that i.e being under the bridge, there is no snow. However, then you can't really see snow in the area where there should be. You probably knew that already, though.

[Remp]

unfortunately this is a limitation of the method i used for creating snow and i cant think of any feasible way around it. feel free to play around with code if you (or anyone) can think of a way to do it

[madis]

Actually, I was surprised that you could accomplish it the way it's already.

[eAi]

Adding a dxDrawBatch (or similar) function would probably speed thing kind of thing up, as the repeated calls to dxDrawImage are probably fairly costly.

I'd really be interested to see if you could develop this into a real particle system - it'd be a great thing to have and a good learning experience

[=RM=Mario]

kewl resource.

[spawn-BELARUS]

Good work! I like snow))))))

[ClaSh]

Nice !

Hum, I'm new on MTA. I have one question, how to install please .

[eAi]

Nice !

Hum, I'm new on MTA. I have one question, how to install please .

Read the manual? https://wiki.multitheftauto.com/wiki/Client_Manual

[ClaSh]

Thank'S but it not says how to install snow mod.

[eAi]

Same way you install any other resource?

[ClaSh]

It work.

Why we need to Ctrl + S to display the snow?

[Remp]

This is just so people have a little more control and can toggle it on and off whenever they want. You could make the snow start automatically when you join the server with a simple edit to the code:

Open snow.lua (in the unzipped snow resource folder), copy and paste this onto the bottom of the file, then save it and then restart the resource:

addEventHandler("onClientResourceStart",resourceRoot,startSnow)

this will automatically start the snow whenever the snow resource starts or the person joins the server

you can also use the exported functions to control the snow if you wanted, but this is probably the easiest way to do it

[WallMart]

haha cool resource

[WallMart]

haha cool resource

[djlobo]

Pretty awesome, just bad i dont used this on christmas times .

[mcB]

This a great resource, thanks!

[Remp]

Version 1.0.2 uploaded

- added a horizontal jitter effect to the snow to give it more energy (can be toggled in the settings / via the exports)

- some misc performance improvements (which pretty much counter the jitter, so this version should be roughly as intensive as the last)

- changed to use dxDrawImageSection, so this version only works with mta 1.0.4+ (so only run it on your server if you enforce 1.0.4 clients)

[Remp]

Version 1.0.3 uploaded.

This fixes an error so the snow will work on the latest mta, please update to use this on 1.1 (or if you can script and want to just update yourself, lines 285/286 in snow.lua: remove the penultimate argument in isLineOfSightClear, 'true')