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Title: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: YasoNoShirabe on November 23, 2007, 03:29:13 AM
Second tutorial from Yaso!

And in this one, we're looking aaaat..

CREATING A WINDY SNOW STORM!

I think it was after reading this one request that I thought about making this... Well it's here. Snow storms! A little over looked, but they can make for pretty disaster scenes, right?


-A snowy place...
Here, I've made a kind of... ridge place with the snowy planes tileset.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm1.jpg&hash=277fa78c76dce1f16961377dcca6b8f5dd452984)

Yey for random snowmen!




-Adding some snow
Adding the snow on the highest setting looks like this.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm2.jpg&hash=ea921e4f24c858847504b0b325953bdab6713450)

It's snowing, yeah, but it's not much of a storm, huh.



-Creating the winds!
Fog is really important when you make storm scenes, as it turns out.
When it comes to making a snowstorm, making the fog move creates the appearance of winds.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm4.jpg&hash=57c8fb1e1dcce04fcd1f76b2a05d75a0fd174cbb)

Speed X and Speed Y will move the fog. The speed amounts are adjusted from -256 to 256. The amount of 0 is stationary, and your fog will stay still.
- Y co-ordinate will move the fog up or down.
- X co-ordinate will move it left or right.
- Both will move the fog in a diagonal direction.

Remember to play with the opactity and the blending to make your snow storm thicker or thinner.

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm3.jpg&hash=19c31b1512f2a998ece741380acccf713f64691e)




-Adding a colored fog
There's an option similar to tint screen, that will tint your fog to a certain hue. Tint fog.
(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm6.jpg&hash=0bcbc7280cd07a5ccab9b1c4360ac36f58e0e405)

It works just like tint screen, I've tinted it above the normal colors. I think this makes the fog.. uh, prettier? Or something. I'm not sure, but it's useful.

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm5.jpg&hash=00cc92f117d1caba2d49340fa538a36da41feeb4)





-Adding in the snow
Now if we add the snow back, we can see that it looks a lttle more like something's happening!
More than just some snow.

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm7.jpg&hash=7d416a18d1261138334d2fd781844589222e2e61)

Woo, spriting error. I'll have to fix that up.



-Sound effects and other
Since there's no snow storm sound effect, using the wind sound effect seems to work fine.
I also used an event to change the character's walking speed against the wind direction, just to make things hard for the player. Speed 2 is about right for it.

(https://rmrk.net/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi166.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fu114%2Fmirror_reflect%2FTutorial%2FSnowstorm8.jpg&hash=d976b5a02dc10fc07cea3e6b9d63d8c0fee951df)





I recently discovered the horizontal rule tool from Kitten's tutorial!! Yeeey! I like it, so kudos to Kitten for showing me that. I'll use it more often.

And with that, go out and create a nice snow storm! Byebye!


*YASO :lol:
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: Leventhan on November 23, 2007, 04:36:51 AM
An interesting and nice to read tutorial.
Cute, too. ;D
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: YasoNoShirabe on November 23, 2007, 05:00:29 AM
Hee. I see you laffing with my cute.
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: shaz on November 23, 2007, 07:08:50 AM
Nice tute.  Are you sure that snow is turned up to highest?  I've seen snow MUCH thicker than that.

Looking forward to seeing more tutes from you - you do much more than show how to use a tileset :)  Lots of important stuff that really helps set the mood.
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: YasoNoShirabe on November 23, 2007, 09:07:10 PM
Quote from: shaz on November 23, 2007, 07:08:50 AM
Nice tute.  Are you sure that snow is turned up to highest?  I've seen snow MUCH thicker than that.

Positive! It's just my poor timing with the screen shot button  .  x'  I can't take good pictures of anything unless they have a pause button... (Thus why none of my photos of people have heads...)

Speeeeaking of moods, I'm in the mood to eat. -Skittered off for breakfasts-
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: djkdjl on November 24, 2007, 10:39:47 PM
sweet,,those r great!
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: firerain on November 25, 2007, 02:39:11 AM
MR. SNOWMAN!?

Great tutorial  :D
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: elfyelf on November 27, 2007, 12:55:06 AM
Thats good that I found this because i trying to get a scene that makes it look like a snow storm and you made it, thx, good tut.


btw how did you make the text window be the same width and height as the text?
Title: Re: [TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!
Post by: YasoNoShirabe on November 27, 2007, 09:23:26 PM
Quote from: elfyelf on November 27, 2007, 12:55:06 AM
btw how did you make the text window be the same width and height as the text?

That's done with a script.