[TUTORIAL]Creating a Snow Storm!

[YasoNoShirabe]

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.


Yey for random snowmen!




-Adding some snow
Adding the snow on the highest setting looks like this.


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.


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.






-Adding a colored fog
There's an option similar to tint screen, that will tint your fog to a certain hue. Tint fog.


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.







-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.



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.








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

[Leventhan]

An interesting and nice to read tutorial.
Cute, too.

[YasoNoShirabe]

Hee. I see you laffing with my cute.

[shaz]

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.

[YasoNoShirabe]

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-

[djkdjl]

sweet,,those r great!

[firerain]

MR. SNOWMAN!?

Great tutorial 

[elfyelf]

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?

[YasoNoShirabe]

btw how did you make the text window be the same width and height as the text?

That's done with a script.