I was playing woth Rdna's freebie volumetric snow, and was wondering, has anyone created free volumetric rain?

I did rig up a Weather Kit (python) that produces moving rain, snow, and hail. Not volumetric, though....

I usually don't do animation, but a good rain effect would be nice. I have the 1 poly rain object, but the volumetric snow looks SO nice!

The weather kit isn't just for animating; it will automatically create a single-frame "sheet" of rain if your frame-count is 1.

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=20323

Nerd's atmospheric prop does rain ... and fog

Attached Link: http://www.nerd3d.com/Store/Fog/Fog.htm

I can't find the volumetric snow, where is it in the RDNA freestuff? Thanks, Marque

it was in the 13 days of christmas stuff...I know they had snowflakes, and last year I think they had the snow itself...

least I think is was... I know the zip is named rdna snowland, and has the snow, some background images, and a north pole in the pack..

I noticed that the 13 days of christmas link is down already

Ithought I had all the RDNA Xmas goodies. I don't remember this one. I'll have to go look through the files again. Volumetric rain, snow, and fog is a good thing. Also, an actualy working volumetric shower would be a good thing too.

It might have been from last year's chirstmas giveaway there. I just tossed them all in my christmas folder, and forgot about them. I was poking around with them this year, stumbled across the zip file, and installed it. There's no read me in the zip, so I don't know if it can be given away or not. It might have been in last year's christmas freebies, or it might have been something I bought on sale. I'll check with them for ya!

Ok, I looked more at the zip file.. on the sign somewhere is a message that the north pole was discovered by Pooh.. was there a poser artist called Pooh? I emailed Rdna, to see if it could be addd to thier freebies, or to see if it's safe to redistribute it.

Found out the snow prop was from 3dzone which now appears to be extinct? Marque

Well, it extracts to a Dna_xmas folder in props. Maybe it was someone who's left them?

Attached Link: http://www.runtimedna.com/download.ez

Typed it in wrong, was the3dworld.com not just 3dworld Marque

As I said the file is named snowland, not volumetric snow, or snow prop. that still yeilds no results though...

ockham, is that one of your freebies, or is it for sale? --Donnie

And can I have one if it's distributable and free?

Hey guys, that was Traveler's freebie from the 2002 RDNA giveaway. Tis a very cool prop!

My weather-kit is free. Just search freestuff for Weather and you'll see it....

I think this is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Winnie the Pooh ;-)

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez?Form.Contrib=ockham&Topsectionid=0

Raindrops when falling do not look like teardrops. They are flattened spheres and bobble a bit as they fall.

Ya, but when you fall on top of one doing 120mph that pointy end sure hurts!

:chuckle: Snow itself is extremely hard (at least the stuff in the Sierras... quite wet and heavy). I thought that I'd nabbed everything last year from the RDNA Christmas giveaway, but can not find the snowland prop. I'm a packrat, too, but moving stuff between dying computers has probably resulted in whole folders vanishing. I had Renderosity's stuff all in one folder, too, and it seems to be missing as well. Oh, well, I'm glad for the generosity, because there really is a lot of free stuff in my files. Traveler has said that he is redoing the Props Club to be more website based, and he is bringing back more goodies for the archive. Perhaps there is a chance that this will be one of them? Carolly

I'd drop him a message or make a wish in RDNA's Wishlist forum. He's real good at keeping up with what people ask for. Since old Father Winter is just now getting here he may even have a newer, more advanced design in the works. Ya, that snow and ice can be wicked. I remember a few years back when making a winter skydive and we hit an 'ice sheet' at about 9,000feet. When we got down we all had tiny blood driplettes on our faces. Looked like a slight case of road rash!

I already sent him a private message here, but he has not replied to it yet..Maybe if nothing else, he can make it available for a short time...

Yikes! I'd never thought about hitting ice while falling like that. :shiver: One of my better memories is of a magical late fall afternoon up in Tuolumne Meadows. The snowcloud rolled towards me as I stood there and then I was immersed inside a world of swirling snowflakes. Not any old snowflakes, but huge silver-dollar sized snowflakes. I don't remember being cold at all. Carolly

I think the oddest weather I have ever seen was in Georgia, Ft. Benning. One side of the parking lot could be dry as a bone in basking in sunshine while the other side is hidden behind a wall of pouring rain - really, hidden I mean, a person would walk out to their car on the other side and litteraly vanish right into it! But then I have yet to see anything as wonderous as a mid-winter's morning in Dexheim, Germany when I would look out my apartment window and the entire valley looked like it was sculpted from solid ice; trees, ground, buildings, everything...like right out of a fairy tale novel!

Now that's a lovely image... something to amuse The Snow Queen.

Thinking about it some more... I suppose that a person could use the old glass figure technique (I remember that it was tutorial #11, but not on which website?) and make the cathedral and castle and all the charming old world houses into ice. Hmmm...