I'm wondering

[000nate]

I was wondering. The splashing effect you see in the water of yavin swamps is this caused by efx files or does this just happen becuase the rain hitting the water?

[irishpump]

isnt it just one of the water textures? You know how some have more waves then others or how there are waterfall types. I think its just a texture you would use with rain entity to keep the "realism" intact.

[Shadriss]

I believe that splashing effect is part of the rain effect itself. As long as it's hitting a water brush, it makes it.

[Leslie Judge]

Here is one of the water shaders of Yavin:

textures/yavin/water1_2sided
{
qer_editorimage	textures/yavin/water1
q3map_tesssize	256
surfaceparm	nonsolid
surfaceparm	water
surfaceparm	fog
surfaceparm	trans
q3map_material	Water
q3map_nolightmap
q3map_onlyvertexlighting
fogparms	( 0.105098 0.147157 0.0431373 ) 128.0
cull	disable
   {
       map textures/yavin/water1
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ZERO
       rgbGen exactVertex
       alphaGen const 0.9
       tcMod turb 0 0.08 0.04 0.08
       tcMod scroll -0.05 -0.001
   }
   {
       map textures/yavin/water_test
       blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
       tcMod turb 0 0.1 0.4 0.09
   }
[b]    {
       clampmap gfx/sprites/rainring2
           surfaceSprites effect 1 1 48 300
           ssFademax 600
           ssVariance 2 1
           ssFaceup
           ssFXDuration 800
           ssFXGrow 10 10
           ssFXAlphaRange 1 0
           ssFXWeather
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
       detail
   }
   {
       clampmap gfx/sprites/bubble2
           surfaceSprites effect 0.6 0.45 48 300
           ssFademax 600
           ssVariance 1 1
           ssFXDuration 800
           ssFXGrow 2 2
           ssFXAlphaRange 0.2 0.5
           ssFXWeather
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
       detail
   }[/b]
   {
       clampmap gfx/sprites/fog
           surfaceSprites effect 20 8 50 200
           ssFademax 1300
           ssFadescale 2
           ssVariance 2 1
           ssWind 10
           ssFXDuration 5000
           ssFXGrow 2 2
           ssFXAlphaRange 0.75 0
       blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
       detail
   }
}

Look at the bold text. The first stage makes the rainrings on the surface with surface sprites, the second one the bubbles. So the splash effect caused by rain is part of the water shader.

[-Chrono_MOT-]

No, it isn't. Not in all cases. You can make a splash effect using some of the efx files you can find in the /env directory. And the ring you are referring to is the one that displays when the player is above the surface.

[Leslie Judge]

OK, you are right, then say this way: since the question was splash effect caused by rain and not that caused by player in my interpretation, I gave an answer for that.

[000nate]

thanks for your help.

[Crazy_Ivan]

how would I incorporate rain into a MP map? I know its probably some shader or something...anyone know how "that guy" got rain into the Kaminoan Landing Platform?

[000nate]

I'm not sure how you incorperate rain for mp but I do know how to do it for sp. This may still work for mp but I'm not sure. All you have to do is create a brush and inside of that brush will be rain. And texture that brush with outdoor. Its in the system textures. Now put a fx_rain inside of the outside brush. this should create rain where ever the outside brush is.

 

:But again I only know it works with sp it might work with mp or not I don't know.

[Leslie Judge]

It doesn't work for MP. Those were shaders or effects. If shaders, then there is Particle Studio to make them.