Custom Weather

[DraconisFantasy]

Hello everyone,

 I have no idea if this question has been answered before or not. I have searched through the forums already, but I have been unable to find anything regarding my problem in particular. If this problem has already been answered I deeply apologize for overlooking it. The thing is, I'm trying to make my own custom weather for a map that I'm working on. I've been trying to use some blue orbs in order to make it appear that soul fragments are floating around in the sky. Sadly each time I try to create it in the sky maker the weather that I created will not appear. I have searched DeviantArt and YouTube in case the answer to my troubles were there, but just like the forums, there is nothing on this particular problem. I know that it's possible to make your own weather because I have seen custom weather in maps, I just simply do not know how to do it and would like some assistance.

Sincerely,
Ninty86

[Enoki]

Did ye make sure to add in the main weather material file? Not only must ye make a single weather file "soulfragments.weather" but ye must also add the correct coding into the "weather.material".

[DraconisFantasy]

Okay, I'll give it a try and tell you how it goes. Thank you so much for responding.

[DraconisFantasy]

Sadly there was still no result. There's just nothing. It loads the file and every thing but I don't see the blue orbs rising at all, it's like it's just a normal day in the game when I want it to be showing soul fragments.

[Enoki]

Can ye post the weather.material and the particle coding? It has to be something to do with the coding.

[DraconisFantasy]

Cycle:
[0-6999]
type=SoulFragments
fade=in

Weather:
[SoulFragments]
ps=Weather/SoulFragments
rate=1000

Particle:
particle_system SoulFragments
{
   quota   5000
   material   SoulFragments
   particle_width   4
   particle_height   5
   cull_each   false
   renderer   billboard
   sorted   false
   local_space   false
   iteration_interval   0
   nonvisible_update_timeout   0
   billboard_type   point
   billboard_origin   center
   billboard_rotation_type   texcoord
   common_up_vector   0 1 0
   point_rendering   false
   accurate_facing   false

   emitter Ellipsoid
   {
      angle   90
      colour   1 1 1 1
      colour_range_start   1 1 1 1
      colour_range_end   0.686275 0.854902 0.952941 1
      direction   0 1 0
      emission_rate   2000
      position   0 0 0
      velocity   15
      velocity_min   15
      velocity_max   10
      time_to_live   15
      time_to_live_min   15
      time_to_live_max   40
      duration   0.5
      duration_min   0.5
      duration_max   8
      repeat_delay   5
      repeat_delay_min   5
      repeat_delay_max   5
      width   300
      height   300
      depth   300
   }

   affector LinearForce
   {
      force_vector   0 -10 0
      force_application   add
   }

   affector Scaler
   {
      rate   0
   }

   affector ColourFader
   {
      red   -0.1
      green   -0.1
      blue   -0.1
      alpha   0
   }

   affector ColourFader
   {
      red   0
      green   0
      blue   0
      alpha   0
   }
}

Material:
material SoulFragments
{
   technique
   {
      pass
      {
         lighting off
         scene_blend add
         depth_write off
         fog_override true
         cull_hardware none
         cull_software none
         texture_unit
         {
            texture SoulFragments.png
         }
      }
   }
}

[Enoki]

There should be a slash after material and before the name of the material file, same goes with the particle system, I believe. So it should be "material/SoulFragments". At least that's what I 'ave normally in m'codes, but it may not be necessary to work. Still something to look in to.

[DraconisFantasy]

Okay. I'll give that a try. Thanks for the help.

[Enoki]

Mhm, no problem! M'fingers will be crossed f'er ye.

[DraconisFantasy]

Yay one part of it worked! Ooh, this is exciting! Okay, so I managed to get the weather particles in the map, the only problem is that they're all square boxes. How do I fix that?