Rain/Snow script module?

[Candle]

Is there one and if not is someone going to make one?
Thanks.

[monkey0506]

As far as I know it would currently be impossible to emulate the plugin with a module.  Hence the lack of one.  There was a thread about this (or one that turned into a thread about this) a while back, and I think that's about how it ended.

[Pumaman]

Yes, anything graphically intensive like this really needs the native code nature of a plugin, attempting to do it through script isn't really feasible.

[Candle]

Thank you for the info.
Guess I will not have rain in my game.

[Janik]

Calsoon 2 (http://www.gaspop.com/) had some simple snow without using the plugin, but it's not nearly as nice. The plugin works well, why not use it?

[Candle]

I don't belive it works with the newer ags.

[MrColossal]

For Calsoon, Chrille just made a character that stood over the whole scene and was animated snow falling, just an FYI.

[Janik]

I don't belive it works with the newer ags.

You're right, I hadn't checked it recently. That's pretty strange, I didn't think that the plugin interface changed since v.2.6. I wonder if Scorpiorus is aware of this and if he's planning to release a new version...

Edit: Hmm, I tried it in, I think, 2.71 Release Candidate 2 (Says October 2005 in the About page) and it worked. But now with RC3 it doesn't work, though it doesn't give any errors. Odd.

[Gilbert]

The plugin works well, why not use it?

Not if you want your game to run in all the supported platforms.

[Candle]

Maybe something like this could be built in to AGS with out plugins etc?

[Janik]

Not if you want your game to run in all the supported platforms.

Sure, but in practice you'll still reach the vast majority of players; Mac users may have VirtualPC and Linux users may have WiNE. I don't know if a Linux user running WiNE can run a windows-compiled AGS game though...

In this case, I could see compiling two versions of a game, one using the plugin and one not. AGS supports #define-s and #ifdef-s, so if each section of code calling the plugin is within an #ifdef block, it would be quick work to recompile for the two versions. This works since the rain/snow is not integral to the operation of the game.

[Joseph DiPerla]

Well, just a suggestion to the original Author of the plugin, would it be ok to give your sourcecode to the plugin to Chris to implement in AGS? Would be good.

Really wish there was a way to use plugins in the MAC and Linux versions too... Damn Microsoft!

[Kweepa]

There is a way to use plugins in under OSX and Linux - it's just that the plugins need recompiled.
The mac version supports plugins. The only compiled plugin is the fire plugin though.
No point in blaming Microsoft!