Need Help Creating a Weather System

DopePersonHasProblem · February 3, 2021, 7:16pm

Hi everyone!

I am trying to get my game’s graphics as real as possible. I want to create a weather system for it, but I am relatively new to scripting and I don’t really know how to make one. My goal is to create a weather system with rain that splashes on the ground, and has the effect of splashing on the player’s GUI as water droplets, which slide off after a delay, like this:

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

(the picture is from a game called Shanyue made by, Z0LL: https://www.roblox.com/games/4957259446/Shanyue)

BullfrogBait · February 4, 2021, 9:56am

Hey so I know you only wanted to know how to do the water droplet effect, but I also listed everything else that this game utilizes, just for anyone else who wants to create a super realistic game.

Here’s a list I compiled to make this reply as clean as possible:

ParticleEmitters – for the rain splashing on the ground effect, and for the rain falling from the sky.
Atmosphere/FogEnd – for creating ‘silhouette’ background images.
Screen Distortion Rain – for the raindrop effect. Thanks @boatbomber.
SurfaceAppearance – for the really well made textures.
Mesh Deformation – to create the moving leaves and other vegetation.

This can be done by having a wait(math.random(30, 120)) so the weather pattern is random and then toggling the ParticleEmitters and Screen Distortion Rain script.

DopePersonHasProblem · February 5, 2021, 5:51am

Hi, I managed to replicate almost all your tips, but I haven’t managed to use mesh deformation for wind. Can you give an example of mesh deformation with wind please? Thanks!

BullfrogBait · February 5, 2021, 6:15am

Well “wind” would be an illusion. And I’m not too familiar with mesh deformation, you could always just rig an animation for the leaves and import it.