[TUTORIAL]Creating a Convincing Storm +demo

[YasoNoShirabe]

Hihi!

This is Yaso's first tutorial ever! Yey!
And it's onnn...

CREATING A STORM SCENE IN A TOWN

I've played a couple of games where it has begun to rain gently and suddenly all the characters are frantic, yelling about getting inside because it's a terrible storm... Well, as it turns out, just setting the storm weather effect by itself isn't going to quite give the desired impact of a lightning storm.

-Let's begin with a town!
Here we have our town.
It's made using the postal town tileset.


It's a library, evidently. And yes, there's a randomly placed pond there. I wanted to fill in that blank space.





-Using the storm weather effect on it's own is not enough!
This is what I've seen people do.
The storm weather effect on the highest setting. No other effects used.


It's okay, I mean, it's rainy, but it doesn't look much like a threatening storm to me.
It kinda looks like a sunshower on a breezy day.





-Storms are daaaark...
It's not often that thunder and lightning occur in sunny conditions. Storm clouds make it dark.
A screen tint is an easy solution to this.


Don't go overboard and make it too dark!
(Unless there's a justifiable reason in the game)






-Creating the Atmosphere
Adding a fog to your scene can really set the atmosphere of a storm.
It could be the spray from the rain, cloud shadows, really low clouds... who knows? It just works for me.
And don't forget that different kinds of effects are achieved with altering the scale, opacity and offset movements of fogs.


This is just fog001 set to 30% opacity.





-Let it rain
There are two options in starting a storm.

You can ease in the rain-
Start with a few drops, and timely raise the intensity of the weather effect
-This is good for realism, or for a kind of dramatic, ominous build up. OoOOoOooOoOooh~


Or, you can just dump it down all at once!-
Storm effect on the highest intensity
-This is good for immediate action, and of course for scenes that begin in the middle of a storm.


Some storms do just dump down all at once, I've been in them.





-Sound, light and special effects
Along with your manditory rain sfx, throwing in some thunder will worsen your heavy downpour to a real storm.
So, why not play some thunder sounds?

And, with (or after)  thunder comes lightning. This can be achieved with screen flashes and quick screen shakes.

Targeting events with animations also works!



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So! That concludes my tutorial!

I hope that someone found it useful, even though my screenshots couldn't show everything I was trying to convey.

Maybe I can make a demo, if someone asks for one?

Thank you anyway!

[EDIT]We have a Demo now! Uhm, jus' lemme know if it crashes on you. n  n

*YASO

[Kokowam]

Nice. Good tut! You could also add in sound effects, right?

[YasoNoShirabe]

Nice. Good tut! You could also add in sound effects, right?

Yey, nice feedback -Had braced for someone pointing out he'd done something wrong-

Of course you can add sound effects! Adding anything to this to make a better storm will... make it a better storm.

I was sure I'd covered the use of sound effects though... 

Oh! I did.

[Kokowam]

Hahaha, whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops. My b. Well, I see that this tutorial is very nice

Middle part of roof seems weird... Might just be me.

(Note how I try to redeem myself by finding maybe an error )

[YasoNoShirabe]

Middle part of roof seems weird... Might just be me.

(Note how I try to redeem myself by finding maybe an error )

That's because I made a mapping error when making the roof. There's like, a repeated tile thing that shouldn't have been and stuff. I remember noticing it when I was doing it, but for some reason I didn't fix it. I was probably being a lazy slob.

Consider yourself ~REEDEEEEEEMED~ (Everything comes back to haunt me when I try and cut corners. . ^ . )

[djkdjl]

VERY nice tutorial,,big thx Yaso.

Loved the sense of humor on the "So you can't read after all!"  HAHA!

[shaz]

lol - Moo - he's doing a tute on storm effects, not mapping   Sheesh - you've gotta achieve perfection to demo ANYTHING these days

Nice tute - like the addition of the animations.  If you were inclined to do up a small demo and make it available, I'm sure there will be people around who don't know how to do these things.

[YasoNoShirabe]

Nyah ha! Demo on the way. : ]

[YasoNoShirabe]

Okay so I have my demo! But I'd like to edit the existing post to be able to attach it...

...Buuuut  can't seem to find the edit button or anyway to attach it or whatnot.

Could I get some help, please?

[Leventhan]

It's under the avatar in your first post.
Attach is in the "Additional Options".


EDIT:Oh, and....nice tut!

[modern algebra]

Nice tutorial. Moving to database.

[YasoNoShirabe]

It's under the avatar in your first post.
Attach is in the "Additional Options".


EDIT:Oh, and....nice tut!

Ouu' thank you very muchly.