I have completed:
- Rain sounds
- Fog effects
- 3 layer scrolling skydome rain cloud texture
- Reflections / puddles on the street
- City geometry / actors / vehicles / props / particles are all reflected in the rain puddles.
I still have to add:
- Actual rain particles ~4k per scene.
- Pre-compute rain 'hit positions' on tile basis for free rain hit detection on the world.
- Add splash effect on rain particles
- Add some more complicated dynamic clouds made up of 100s of particles each.
- Thunder & lightning
- [?] Animate/modify the water reflection texture in real-time based on rain drops [?].
- Add mist particles?
- Additional 2D scrolling rain texture?
The lightning will effect the cloud particles around it, etc. and will also cast shadows [maybe]...I can't wait to start coding that part.
I should be done with it later today, I gotta crash for a few hours then it's back to work. I will have a juicy update when I'm done with the effect, as well as a video.
I've been eying the Toy Shop demo by ATI...it's a work of freakin' art, I'm trying to duplicate it obviously with some restrictions/limitations because of the size of the environment, etc.
Here are the work-in-progress screens after a few hours of work [yes I still have to add the rain particles]...
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP5.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP6.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP7.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP8.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP9.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP10.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP4.jpg)
Actually here is a screen grab from ATI's toy shop demo, look at the city/sky/light colors, mines pretty close...[and damn their video compression]...now I just have to add some rain lol.
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/ToyShop.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP1.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP2.jpg)
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Rain_WIP3.jpg)
Also I finalized all the order icons, this also represents the final list of orders you can give to your gangsters...
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar07/Orders_Icons.jpg)
If you missed it last entry, check out this video of the new internet radio!
Click here to download video of In-Game Radio [13MB MPEG]
![](http://www.radioactive-software.com/gangwar/Mar05/Radio_VidPreview.jpg)
Phew...time for some shut eye...at 1:00PM. Wait...what day is it? lol
- Dan
How long will the puddles stay, and it what way will they disappear? I suppose you could really go two ways, either make them smaller, or just have them fade.
Edit:: Also, what is the impact on fps during the rain?