nerd posted at 3:02 PM Mon, 1 May 2023 - #4463958

And I'm a bad nerd for not getting this stuff revved up and re-submitted to the Marketplace. Someday poser will get real particles and make this stuff obsolete. Until then ...

Increase the Depth for each of the sheets of rain. Select the Control for the Rain tool. The for the Depth control increase the Depth to someth8ing like .125 for the entire duration of the animation. That's most easily done with the graph tool. Open the graph and select all the keys for Depth and [Control] + Drag then up to fix the gap between the sheets of rain.

You're not a bad nerd, I'm a bad student.  Yeah, I liked Weird Juice's MetaForm. Particles and nurbs.  I could do flames splashing off shields, torches, fountains, Green Lantern's force field in space, blood squibs . . .  Thanks again for the nifty tools you've created over the years.

I'll give those instructions a try.  Sorry I've been so thick over the years.  One trick I have been using is parenting an object to the control triangles:  makes them easier to find to apply poses and textures.  Alternate way to keep the depth settings constant through the animation is to click on the arrow on the far right of the dial, go into settings, and turn off Animating. Less editing required, therefore less chance I'll make a mistake.  And I always make a few.  [sigh]

Thanks.  I didn't want to bother you again because you're busy with Poser 13 these days, and I apologize for interrupting that.