A hole in the roof!

[Pileyrei]

Hi all

I'm looking to create a realistic looking "hole" or "crater" in the roof of a map and then create the effect of snow falling in through the hole.
Not necessarily a simple hole but maybe a hole created by a crashing meteor

I'm a bit of a cube mapper and so whilst I could probably do it "my way" it wont be right

I think a good skybox would be needed too.

Please could you share with me mapping tips on how to achieve this?
Example maps would also be welcome!

Thank you
Piley

[PrinceOfFunky]

Hi all

I'm looking to create a realistic looking "hole" or "crater" in the roof of a map and then create the effect of snow falling in through the hole.
Not necessarily a simple hole but maybe a hole created by a crashing meteor

I'm a bit of a cube mapper and so whilst I could probably do it "my way" it wont be right

I think a good skybox would be needed too.

Please could you share with me mapping tips on how to achieve this?
Example maps would also be welcome!

Thank you
Piley

If you don't mind to use custom actors and dll's, XEmitter would be a good solution:

EmitterUT.rar

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Try changing this emitter settings to make it snow, I was in the mood to make it rain lol...

RainyDay_Emitter.unr

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[Barbie]

If you don't mind to use [...] dll's

Nice choice if you don't want your map seen on a server based on Linux.

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There is also a similar thread here: How to make snow falling ?
If rain instead snow is an option, I remember the map MH-BukieMall+Fix2 as an example for it. It uses the WSPack1.
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I'm looking to create a realistic looking "hole" or "crater" in the roof of a map

Hmm, I think you mean a hole in the ceiling of a building or cave? Something like this?

It was created by UnrealEx Tunnel.
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[Pileyrei]

Thanks guys.

Yes Barbie I think that looks about right.
Will have a look at your file

[Eviltom]

For the hole just make a jagged hole shape with the 2d shape editor and subtract it from the ceiling, subtract a cube above it (with all faces set as backdrop, so it looks like sky above)

For Snow? The simplest way would be a few vertical sheets with a panning masked falling snow texture. But that would look pretty basic!

[Pileyrei]

Thanks for all the comments and feedback.
Definitely want a jagged hole. I'm rubbish with the 2D editor but will try it out!

[sektor2111]

There are "PrecipitationGenerator" types without to mock player with DLL stuff. It is only needed a wrapper because code is crapped but it's usable by writing 4 lines. It works without "ADDS" and trashes which a default server is NEVER sending making player to not play and server to stay empty. Good luck at hosting these ! If I well recall I have even posted fixed code somewhere, probably G00gle knows about it...
Edit:
A Note about these spammers
If you are not a fan of XC_Engine, these lousy spawners will devastate machine's memory having all chances to stuck server if game is running a long time. GarbageCollector will process a lot at end of match because of huge number of actors created and removed into garbage objects, if memory boundaries have not been touched yet...
Perhaps I have to write a sort of recycling system for reusing these precipitation actors, depending on my state... or maybe doesn't worth too many efforts.