Realistic Rain

[Qbasic8]

What is the best way of creating realistic looking rain?  I tried before but whatever I did made it look like just lines coming down the screen. I was playing around with texture shape, etc... but it looked horrible!!

[King Warg]

TC uses a particle effect for the rain, but it's not very visible unless you get close.

[nicolas]

For first person view, I've seen quite convincing effects using a 2D overlay of falling rain with some water streaming of the camera.

But for Populous style overhead camera views, this will more than likely have terrible results.

[King Warg]

yea particle effect is probably the best for such, but it won't matter much if I can't fix the game pathfinding class (written by another dev who is no longer interested in the project), it doesn't make a bit of sense to me.

[TecnoBacon]

Cylindars around player with at least three layers with a slight rotation and the texture modulating toward the ground looks great and even appears like rain when you look up.

[Mietze]

All I have to say is:

http://tgeaenhanced.blogspot.com/2008/10/simulating-wetness-in-tgea.html

[nicolas]

And as that link is broken, that's not an awful lot you've got to say...

[Mietze]

lol... link is fixed =D