didnt know this but makes sense i guess. I was always taught and done on my own that, you just need to light it from behind, same with smoke, steam, etc for them to show up in footage, as opposed to lighting it from the front.
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White lines as rain, why haven't devs improved this yet?
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didnt know this but makes sense i guess. I was always taught and done on my own that, you just need to light it from behind, same with smoke, steam, etc for them to show up in footage, as opposed to lighting it from the front.
This looks pretty good. I think they nailed the "look" and behaviour of the rain. Tough to tell if the rain is actually forming and interacting with anything, though. I want to be able to zoom the camera in on a leaf and see droplets coming off the foliage or off the characters face.
Kamina
Golden Boy
I always though it only looks so bad because its being illuminated by these strong lights.
Super Mario 3D World. Better?
Eww, Mario looks like he's drenched in sweat.
Shining Sunshine
Banned
It's really a balance of processing usage. If you want great rain effects, you're giving up something for it.
dragonbane
Member
I suppose the rain in Heavy Rain and Beyond looked pretty decent:
During Bullet Time:
During Bullet Time:
It's not rain, but to date, no one has topped the falling snow in Resistance.
They pretty much nailed it. Which made their water effects being so meh, so damn disappointing.
Ghost GIF
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
Okay so realistic rain. DC has some of the best I've seen and it still looks like white streaks right
I suppose the rain in Heavy Rain and Beyond looked pretty decent:
During Bullet Time:
SerTapTap
Member
jabberwocker
Banned
Lol, didn't know rainbitching was a thing. Thanks gaf. Haha.
Okay so realistic rain. DC has some of the best I've seen and it still looks like white streaks right
Yeah, that looks good. I like the way driving faster affects the trajectory of the droplets falling. I wonder if you stop the car, does water pool on the vehicle or stream off of it in some way, like it does while driving?
Okay so realistic rain. DC has some of the best I've seen and it still looks like white streaks right
Where was this video shot?
Some of these look nice, I guess it depends on how you implement it.
PS: SNK 4 EVA
See how the rain effect shows it streaming off of the structures? That effect seems really hard to implement in a realistic fashion while also nailing the falling effect.
SeventhSon
Member
I remember thinking the razor rain in Gears of War 2 looked pretty cool.
UncleSporky
Member
Call of Pripyat and The Witcher 2 did it pretty well.
Arkham Knight has awesome rain that is made from individual drops that can be illuminated by surrounding lights.
During that "3 enemy takedown" segment shown in E3 demo, time slows down, and individual drops can be seen quite nicely! [source shitty YouTube encode]
Camera rotating wildly to the side & very slow timeflow:
Camera stationary & very slow timeflow:
During that "3 enemy takedown" segment shown in E3 demo, time slows down, and individual drops can be seen quite nicely! [source shitty YouTube encode]
Camera rotating wildly to the side & very slow timeflow:
Camera stationary & very slow timeflow:
Devs released two 15sec weather videos on Facebook&Vine few weeks ago.
SerTapTap
Member
Some of these look nice, I guess it depends on how you implement it.
PS: SNK 4 EVA
Unf I wish someone still did fighting game backgrounds like this. Skullgirls characters look amazing but the backgrounds are just okay. I can't recall if KOF13 backgrounds are up to snuff, haven't played it much. Characters look good though.
Arkham Knight has awesome rain that is made from individual drops that can be illuminated by surrounding lights.
I really like this one. You can tell those aren't white lines, they appear to be actual streams of water, broken into droplets. Looks cool.
Jigolo
Member
Arkham Knight has awesome rain that is made from individual drops that can be illuminated by surrounding lights.
During that "3 enemy takedown" segment shown in E3 demo, time slows down, and individual drops can be seen quite nicely! [source shitty YouTube encode]
Camera rotating wildly to the side & very slow timeflow:
Camera stationary & very slow timeflow:
I think we have a winner here. That is the most impressive video game rain I've ever seen.
OverdriveOtaku
Member
Oh man, I'm a huge fan of rain in general, and this alone sells me on this game. Amazing.
OverturePT
Member
Hmm... I didn't play either of them, but I'm not seeing it in these vids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDUPrdCDpeo
This one kind of gets the idea, but there's no water coming off of the surface, at all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfg0dr8vQyo
I think it looks great in some games
Best rain since the Wind Waker reveal
Rain in Beyond was really well made. One [if not the] best rain effects on the ps3.
eyeball_kid
Member
Wow.
"Alright, lady. Maybe you'll talk after a little time in the rain."
[laughter from other men]
"No, no! This is not rain! What is this? God, no! Someone...help me! Help!"
dragonbane
Member
yeah, you are right:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkgMSCD-sDY
the many raindrops actually look rather like fog.
but actually, besides the "white line" rain, Driveclub simulates that "fog" quite well, thats why it looks so realistic
Ingueferroque
Banned
Example of horrible rain
This is the PS3 version I hope?
NoirVisage
Banned
A million magic crystals painted pure and white.
Fun Factor
Formerly FTWer
Metal Gear Solid 2 wins again.
Gran Turismo 5 had amazing rain effects in the trailer but the game however....
Looks like droplets of milk
Is this from the trailer?
FlashbladeGAF
Member
Arkham Knight
Should have been first post
Now let's hope the rain still looks that good when it's on consoles instead of PC
Still the best after all these years.
Agreed. No matter how many years and console generations pass, MGS2 had some amazing rain effects.
It is obviously not the most technically advanced, but it looks AWESOME.
thatmariolover
Member
TheExecutive
Member
Nope just as bad as still pictures. So bad that I thought it was a bug.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
ENB rain in skyrim looks pretty good.
Interesting. I was always under the impression they increased the size of the droplets.