TUT: Creating Rain + Snow + Fog in DarkPlaces

[FC Zvyozdochka]

Looks like you have wrong progs.dat. Download the last version of "Small mod compilation" and delete progs.dat from your ID1 folder. Or better unpack progs.dat from compilation's pk3-file to ID1 folder, cause that way it will override all other progs which may be in other pack files.

[kreaper]

that did it thnx. it looks awesome cheers

[dafx]

Hi quakers, firstly thank you Seven for creating this perfect tutorial.
When Splitterface have done ent files for MP1 and noone seems to create another for MP2, I've decided to do it, because since I know this community I wanted to contribute with something.
My actual work is located in this thread
Since it's my first work I would be glad to any feedback and suggestions.

[MadGypsy]

This is the Dissolution of Eternity mission pack with all of Sevens Mission Pack 1 mods ported into it.

Things to upgrade:
1) Make choice rogue monsters corpse-gibbable
2) Make lava nails stick in walls

Included fgd:
This is the standard rogue fgd file with rain and snow entities added to the very bottom of the file

1) Make a block primitive that encompasses the entire area that you want it to rain/snow in
2) select it and click "to entity"
3) select func_rain or func_snow from the drop down menu
4) set the velocity, cnt and count parms to your desired amount. These values are used exactly as described in Sevens .ent TUT on the same subject. There is no need to set the other values described in his tutorial because func_rain and func_snow already collect the data of the block size that they are attached to

note: you will need the sounds and progs folder from Sevens QMP1 compilation to enjoy the walk, rain, thunder sounds and the particle fires

I did not make rogue monsters corpse-gibbable cause I technically don't have a clue what I am doing and rogue monsters already have a bunch of functions in the last death function of the monsters. I need more time to look into it. Just adding the monsterbodyque() (or whatever) is not going to work.Also, lava nails do not stick in walls, other than that it has all of the same functions as Seven Quake.

On an unrelated note - can someone tell me where in the quake code it tells the monsters what to do when they kill you? I wanna add a dance function there and mix up through monster frames to create a dance. Can I not find it cause it "tells" the monsters what to do by simply not saying anything?. I want my enemy to boogie when it kills me...lol

Rogue Modded Progs and FGD with rain/snow entities

Gypsy

[Moon[Drunk]]

Link to fgd?

[golden_boy]

Adding "taunt" function to monsters (to make them do X after killing you):

It is too long to explain here, but look in the Remake Quake source and search for "taunt". What we basically did was add a self.th_taunt to monsters and add stuff to ai.qc. You can then give monsters a function to run when they just killed the player - this is how the RMQ ogre does a little dance, and the enforcer says "suck it down" after killing you.

[MadGypsy]

Link to fgd?

I'm not sure if you are asking me why or where, so I will answer both.

where: right under "edit: woops"

why: cause I don't really play quake, I make quake (respectively). So, I included my fgd which has the snow and rain entities defined in it. That way other map-makers can put rain and snow in their worlds natively.

@golden_boy - thanks, I can figure it out from there

Gypsy

[Moon[Drunk]]

I'm not sure if you are asking me why or where, so I will answer both.

The file r_progs.zip only contains the progs.dat not any .fgd file!
Btw the link should also point at this url instead.

[MadGypsy]

Ah, you are correct sir (my mistake). I uploaded a complete zip and changed the link in my original post. It's kinda good I made that mistake because:

a) I added a little read_me file that gives credit to Seven for the original mods
b) I realized that I didn't clarify that you will need the sounds and progs folder from Sevens compilation in order to hear the sounds and see the proper fire.
c) I moved the rain/snow mod in the fgd to the very bottom of the file

here is the link again Rogue Modded and .FGD

For those that just want the entity defs for an .fgd - here they are. It's pretty straight forward, Tie the funcs that you added at the end of MISC.qc to a solid (so it can be sized), then define all the parameters that need to be set. You don't need to define (maxs,mins,absmax,absmin) because func_rain/snow already do this based on the size of the entity you create.

@SolidClass = func_rain: "func_rain"
[
	velocity(string): "velocity" : "0 0 -700"
	count(integer): "count" : 4
	cnt(integer): "cnt" : 2
]

@SolidClass = func_snow: "func_snow"
[
	velocity(string): "velocity" : "0 0 -100"
	count(integer): "count" : 10
	cnt(integer): "cnt" : 11
]

You could probably make this function triggerable by simply modifying the code like this. I haven't tested this but I don't see why it wouldn't work.

@SolidClass base(Targetname)= func_rain: "func_rain"
[
	velocity(string): "velocity" : "0 0 -700"
	count(integer): "count" : 4
	cnt(integer): "cnt" : 2
]

Edit: making weather triggerable will not work the above way. After looking through the quake code I see why. I need to modify func_rain/snow to accept a trigger. I plan to do this, but I also want to make a few other mods, so I will release another rogue progs and fgd mod when I have more to offer than one little trigger.

I want to thank Seven and all others involved for modding the original Quake for Sevens compilation. It inspired me to try and port it. I knew next to nothing about quake c before I took a stab at it, now I have a better than poor understanding of Quake c. I'm sure years of programming in other OOP languages definitely helped "ease the pain" but ripping apart quake to find your mods was nothing short of an education.

[Moonlights]

Every time i want use a .ent file i got this error:

DRVM_ED_PARSEEpair: cant find function seven_think in server
HOST ERROR DRVM_ED_PARSEEDict: parse error

Help me please...

[talisa]

@moonlight

these rain ent files require you to have also installed sevens small mod compilation:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod...mpilation.html

thats what causes the error, sevens SMC has modified quake code which allows for rain,
which the ent files require to work

[Moonlights]

Try THIS progs.dat!!

Just extract the zip to your ID1 folder!

Can you reup on mediafire for me please... all my .ent file make this error...

Sorry for my english

[webangel]

Can you reup on mediafire for me please... all my .ent file make this error...

Sorry for my english

Like Splitterface says:
Try Sevens great SMC and disable the things you don�t like

[talisa]

made a nice addon for the startmap and basemaps, which add the fancy slipgate stars effect i love so much

made these ent-files some time ago, and thought you all might like them too



DOWNLOAD SLIPGATE STARS ADDON FOR ID1



also made slipgate stars addons for HYPNOTIC:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod...tml#post121841

[Mr.Burns]

Keep up the good work Split. They look really nice.

Kind regards
Monty