Way to overhaul blizzard weather. More snowflakes density.

Kubanetz

Any idea how to do that?

a63nt-5m1th

'blizzard_render_drop.xml'

Use Ctrl+F3 in OpenIV to search your 'mods' folder to find it/them (usually in 'common.rpf', or sometimes 'update.rpf' (if moved etc). Edit the one in 'update.rpf' if it exists. If not, edit the one in 'common.rpf'

Vanilla one looks like this inside:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<rage__ptxgpuDropRenderSettings>
  <textureRowsColsStartEnd x="2.000000" y="2.000000" z="0.000000" w="3.000000" />
  <textureAnimRateScaleOverLifeStart2End2 x="0.000000" y="0.000000" z="0.000000" w="3.000000" />
  <sizeMinMax x="0.025000" y="0.025000" z="0.035000" w="0.035000" />
  <colour x="1.000000" y="1.000000" z="1.000000" w="1.000000" />
  <fadeInOut x="1.000000" y="1.000000" />
  <fadeNearFar x="1.000000" y="100.000000" />
  <fadeGrdOffLoHi x="0.000000" y="-15.000000" z="0.500000" w="100.000000" />
  <rotSpeedMinMax x="-5.000000" y="5.000000" />
  <directionalZOffsetMinMax x="-0.000000" y="0.000000" z="0.000000" />
  <dirVelAddCamSpeedMinMaxMult x="0.000000" y="0.000000" z="0.000000" />
  <edgeSoftness value="1.000000" />
  <particleColorPercentage value="1.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionVisibilityPercentage value="0.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionAlphaBooster value="1.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionAmount value="1.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionBlurLevel value="0" />
  <localLightsMultiplier value="0.200000" />
</rage__ptxgpuDropRenderSettings>

These are the values I would probably play around with & increase to start with (not exactly sure what all of them do):

  <textureRowsColsStartEnd x="2.000000" y="2.000000" z="0.000000" w="3.000000" />
  <sizeMinMax x="0.025000" y="0.025000" z="0.035000" w="0.035000" />
  <fadeInOut x="1.000000" y="1.000000" />
  <fadeNearFar x="1.000000" y="100.000000" />
  <fadeGrdOffLoHi x="0.000000" y="-15.000000" z="0.500000" w="100.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionAmount value="1.000000" />
  <backgroundDistortionBlurLevel value="0" />

<sizeMinMax will have the most dramatic effect. Although it just basically increases the size of the individual snowflakes.

Kubanetz

@a63nt-5m1th thank you, really, thanks a lot!