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Introduction

Rain in Half-Life?" Yes! You've been all dreaming of it! This tutorial file explains how you can easily add rain in your levels.
You've gotta see this in the game for the full effect.You've gotta see this in the game for the full effect.

Setup

Step #1

Place the rain.spr file (available in rain.zip) in the valve\sprites directory.

Step #2

In your level you need 3 entities for each drip (so copy/paste these entities in the area you want the rain to fall, and space them, more or less, depending the rain intensity):

Step #3

In the env_beam, you now need to...

Notes

Below are a few tips for improving the rain effect.

Example

For a more concrete illustration, check out the example map linked below.

download example map and source
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