Place: https://www.roblox.com/games/883728803/Trail-Based-Rain-Demo https://www.roblox.com/library/883723396/Trail-Based-Rain
After a tweet by TigerCaptain, I decided I would try to make a free model rain generator using the new trails object, with a bit of extra functionality. Oh say… wind:
As well as “override areas” for how low the rain gets:
API (it is a module, located in a LocalScript):
RainAPI:StartRain()
RainAPI:StopRain()
RainAPI:AddOverrideRegion(X1,Z1,X2,Z2,OverrideY)
RainAPI:RemoveOverrideRegion(Id)
RainAPI:SetWindSpeed(X,Z)
RainAPI:GetWindSpeed()
RainAPI:SetRainGroupsPerSecond(NewRainGroupsPerSecond)
RainAPI:GetRainGroupsPerSecond()
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Looks very nice, good job!
That’s a gorgeous skybox as well!
A lot of people have made great skyboxes as free models. I don’t have the ability to make my own.
I was going to make this! Darnit someone beat me
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There is more than 1 way to do it. If you think you can do something better, performance or detail wise, do it.@wravager ) : x.com
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ikiled
June 26, 2017, 1:48am
#8
Looks amazing! Great work
sparker22
June 26, 2017, 6:00am
#9
The lack of rain intensity is saddening. Would be cool to have like intense storms
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There actually is.
RainAPI:SetRainGroupsPerSecond(NewRainGroupsPerSecond)
RainAPI:GetRainGroupsPerSecond()A low number like 60 will result in light rain and a higher number like 600 will result in heavier rain.
This is a brilliant addition to the community, indeed a very clever use of the new trails feature as well. Nice job!
sparker22
June 26, 2017, 7:11pm
#12
My bad! Completely misunderstood it at first. Still not heavy enough for a bad thunderstorm though
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Yeah, you’d need to combine it with fog + lighting changes to make it look like a heavy thunderstorm.
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give me a copy please
Tomarty
June 26, 2017, 9:21pm
#16
I want to try making skyboxes with my Mavic Pro drone
Beautiful implementation of trails. One question, does the rain have collision detection?
Not exactly. I add a function named RainAPI:AddOverrideRegion(X1,Z1,X2,Z2,OverrideY) to set the override destroy height for a certain region. This would be useful for flat roofs but it isn’t a good solution for things like moving objects and slanted roofs. I decided to do this implementation as it was a lot cheaper than casting rays constantly.
Another rain effects script had the rain destroyed upon a Touched event, perhaps you could do something similar?
Elmuowo
July 28, 2017, 5:44pm
#21
I took the model and put it in startergui, playing in play solo chops my frames to 15 but I dont see any rain anywhere
