A5 Lightning and Rain

Lightning and Rain add great atmosphere to a level.

Lightning

Place several lightning bolt sprites (#4890) in areas where you want the lightning to flash. Tag them all [Channel,0].

Place an S[Channel,28] in every sector containing a lightning bolt.

Rain

Place dripping water (#660) in the areas that you want rain to fall. Raise the dripping water sprites to the ceiling. It is recommended to give them a palette value of 13. Note: For some odd reason, my dripping water sprites sometimes decide to completely disappear in BUILD, so I cannot move them, see them, or get rid of them (in 3D mode). Maybe it's a bug?

If you want rain sound effects, place an M[HearingDistance,358] in the raining area. For HearingDistance, a value of 1024 is equal to the largest grid square in BUILD.

Note: The dripping water sprite does not have to be used for rain. It is normally used as dripping water to create a damp atmosphere (very effective).

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