Simple Rain Effect

[Sayumi101]

So I was in the process of making a game for NaNoReNo and after a little help from code snippets found here on the forums and some free photoshop brushes was able to make an okay-ish rain and thunder effect.
And I thought I'd share just in case.
Preview (The thunder was kinda disappearing when I clicked screenshot ._.)

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Codes As written by a very kind user 'Alex' here---> http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewto ... f=8&t=7423

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init:
    image rev_lightning = im.Flip("lightning.png", horizontal=True)

    image rain:
  
        "rain1.png"
        0.2
        "rain3.png"
        0.2
        "rain2.png"
        0.2
        repeat
        
    image lightning:
        choice:        #weight of choice is 1
            "lightning.png"
            alpha  0.0
            0.5                 # show nothing for 0.5 seconds
        
        choice 0.1:   #weight of choice is 0.1
            "lightning.png"
            alpha  0.0
            linear 0.3 alpha  1.0
            linear 0.3 alpha  0.0
            
        choice 0.1:
            "rev_lightning"
            alpha  0.0
            linear 0.3 alpha  1.0
            linear 0.3 alpha  0.0
            
        repeat

Invoking the function in-game can be done by

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show lightning
show rain

Hope this was helpful a little at least >.<

[sugarsaw1]

That's really cool! The raindrops are pretty, too.

[Kokoro Hane]

Hmm, this could be quite useful since there is a rain scene in mine!

[Sayumi101]

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Glad you like it ^^

...

Oh? Feel free to make use of it if it meets standards. >.<

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Just realized that I made it rain indoors in the preview pic...
Is bewildered by own idiocy.
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[YzzaPizzaIsCheezy]

Really like them. Gonna use them SOMEDAY.

[TheSonicGeek]

Yaay! I'm so glad i didn't need hire someone to do this Credit will be given

[78909087]

This looks pretty! I'll give it a try.

[ironk]

renpy v7.1.0

pls help, it wont run
error: couldnt find rain.jpg
while lightning works

[parttimestorier]

renpy v7.1.0

pls help, it wont run
error: couldnt find rain.jpg
while lightning works

If it's saying it can't find the file, then you're probably calling the file by the wrong name or putting it in the wrong place. The example says "rain.png", so if your code says "rain.jpg" that might be the issue. Also, if you put it somewhere other than the base game folder, you'll have to specify the location it's in as well. Like if you moved it to the images folder, it would be "images/rain.png", or if you made another folder just for the rain inside your images folder, it would be "images/rain/rain.png"

[ironk]

ok thanks

[ChangeOfHeart]

Thanks! Definitely going to give this a try.