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The Snow plugin draws objects on your desktop from image files that drift in any direction.
Using Snow
To use Snow, first be sure the Snow plugin is enabled, then simply press <Super+F3>. This should start snowflakes on your screen, falling towards the bottom. Note: your CPU usage may go up while snow is active. This is because the redraws and calculations for snow travel is CPU-intensive, especially since there are about 1500 snowflakes by default.
The Snow plugin uses images as textures to animate and rotate. The images can be png, svg, or jpg in any combination. To add a texture, go to the Textures tab in Snow plugin. You can then add more textures to this list.
You must enable PNG, SVG, and JPEG plugins under "Image Loading" for those image types to be supported.
Snow appearance
Within snow settings, you can change animation and appearance
Number of Snowflakes |
How many snowflakes appear on screen |
Size of Snowflakes |
The image size |
Snow Speed |
The rate of movement of the images on screen |
Update Delay |
The rate of redraw of the snowflakes on screen |
Screen Boxing |
How far inside or outside of the screen the snowflakes can be drawn |
Screen Depth |
The depth the snowflakes will be drawn giving the appearance of depth to the scene |
Snow Over Windows |
Allow snowflakes to pass over the window = enabled, or behind = disabled |
Rotate Flakes |
To enable or disable image rotation of the snowflake |
Snow Direction |
Which direction the snow should travel |
Snow Settings Example
Within this package is a folder named hotair:
Number of Snowflakes |
your choice |
Size of Snowflakes |
slider all the up (50,000) |
Snow Speed |
your choice |
Update Delay |
Approximately 12 |
Screen Boxing |
Slider all the way up |
Screen Depth |
Slider all the way up |
Snow Over Windows |
your choice |
Rotate Flakes |
No, if you want a realistic scene |
Snow Direction |
Left to right, or Right to Left again if you want realism |
Debugging
Snow also allows you to disable alpha-blending of textures and textures altogether (Leaving 'white squares') if you wish.
Plugins/Snow (last edited 2008-07-16 14:13:13 by OasisGames)