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How To Make Rain
Difficulty: Beginner
Category: CS:S > MappingAuthor(s): ccduff

So just how do you make rain? All will be explained in this tutorial.

Create a brush with the “nodraw” texture covering the area you want the rain to appear in your map.

Example:

See Screenshot A and B


With the brush selected right click it in the 2d view and then left click on “Tie to Entity” or with the brush selected just hit “Ctrl+T”.
Once you have done this a properties box should pop up.
Go to the “Class” menu located in the top left, click on the arrow and scroll down until you find “func_precipitation” click on it, then click on apply in the bottom left of the “Object Properties” box.

Example:

See Screenshot C and D



Congratulations you have just created rain, compile your map and check it out.




Now you have rain in your map how about customising it so it fits in with your maps atmosphere? I’ll explain the rains properties below.

Name = the name that other entities refer to this entity by.
Just type in the name you would like to give to the entity and hit the “apply” button located in the bottom left. Remember entity names cannot have spaces in.

Parent = the name of this entity's parent in the movement hierarchy. Entities with parents move with their parent.
To connect this entity with a parent entity just scroll down the menu till you find the name of the entity you would like to tie your rain entity to.

Density = this setting determines how hard you want it to rain, the setting ranges from 1-100%.


1% is a light shower.
100 is a heavy down pour.


Colour = this setting is used to define the colour of your rain. Just hit the pick colour button and choose one you like.

Precipitation type = this setting is used to define what your rain looks looks like in game.
If you want to give it the look of snow, select snow from the pop down menu.
If you want to make it look like rain, select rain from the drop down menu.

To view the object properties box, just select the entity/brush, right click and scroll down to properties.

And there you have it ladies and gents. That’s all there is to know about rain, hope this has helped, happy mapping.
Added: 1 year agoTags: rain, how to make, ccduff, map, css, cool
Feedback (7)
Ryokotsusai .
BananiteY2M
Posted 2 months ago
Explains the process very well, definitely useful reading for a newbie to map building...
- Bananite
DemoniclyK .
T3h_m@Pp3RY2M
Posted 5 months ago
Pros: Shows everything. Neat
Cons: none
Improvements: none
Notes: Thanks!
- T3h_m@Pp3R
AzinFiro .
I'm nobody, but nobody's perfect.Y2M
Posted 7 months ago
Thanks, I havent tryed it out, but it sounds like it's very usefull., ;)
ClanFever .
BannedY2M
Posted 11 months ago
Godlike, helps me.
- Banned
r3set .
Street StalkerY2M
Posted 1 year ago
Posted by tpskjarhead

This has already been done before. Please check that there already isn't a tut, or you can better explain it before you make it. This tut below was made 2 months ago.


Adding Rain, And Snow!


You should be happy that at least someone is making tutorials!
Thanks for tutorial it helped me!!
tpskjarhead .
Hi, I'm Zao aka tpskjarhead.Y2M
Posted 1 year ago
This has already been done before. Please check that there already isn't a tut, or you can better explain it before you make it. This tut below was made 2 months ago.


Adding Rain, And Snow!
Pabx .
"What? everyone runs faster with a knifeY2M
Posted 1 year ago
Excellent Tutorial this explained some things I needed to know, that other tutorials didnt explain....Thanks...although you should inclue a picture of the rain ingame
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