How can I make it rain in a map? I don't know how to use weather palettes

First you need to make sure you have portals in their appropriate places in your map, and secondly I'd recommend extracting all of c10's (343 guilty spark) tags using hek+. You can then load c10's rain weather pallet into Sapien the same way you load scenery, then just select it in the drop down menu in the weather folder under the cluster properties folder in Sapien's hierarchy menu.

okay thanks i've done all that. Is there any other rain that is a bit heavier and without the swamp bugs?

Not that I know of, you'll either have to make it yourself or look for one on this site. I'm sure you can find tutorials on how.

i looked through the tutorials and couldnt find any. The swamp rain will have to do for now. Thanks!

What does he mean by Portals?

How much of the level your screen renders depending on where you stand on the map.

I can't find the rain weather when im playing sapien and I extracted all the tags, How did you do it step by step if you don't mind me asking?

What I did:

Extract all tags from c10

in sapien, go into cluster properties > palettes > weather pallete

hit new instance

in the particle system box, select levels\c10\swamp bugs and rain



Is the particle system scale function who intense the particle system will be?

Lol I got it, now how do I change the sky and change it to like really foggy or night time? and what I did I didn't touch the particle system but if you want you can change it to 1 it would still work most likely. but the rain doesn't show on the map only the sound now what do I do?
Edited by ICE x Toxiic on Jan 1, 2012 at 08:56 PM

well when i put the rain in on mine it was there but very faint. You could try messing round with the scale thing. To change the sky just open the scenario in guerilla and up the top is the sky section. Choose a night sky or whatever you want. I think you add fog in the fog palette section and if you want your map to be darker, type this into tool:

tool lightmaps levels\folder\scenario bsp 0 0.9

oh and when u added the particle system did you go file > save bsp?
Edited by Muscl3r on Jan 1, 2012 at 09:33 PM

And remember, it's 1000% more realistic when you use background sounds. Add them the same way you added the rain, you should have seen the folder right next to weather in the pallets folder. It's called swamp.sound_looping or something like that, and if it's not in the c10 folder it's under tags\sound\sfx\ambient or something like that.


Just use c10.sky, it's in c10's folder. And did you have the rain working at one point?

Portals are very important in any Halo CE map, The HEK tutorial that comes with all the halo tools will show you how to use them (the tutorial that shows you how to make the tutorial map).
Edited by yukonmuffin on Jan 2, 2012 at 01:16 AM

no the rain was not working before, all i got was sound of the rain but no rain in game.

Is the rain loaded in the pallet and selected as the weather for the outdoors portal?

how do i select it for the outdoor portal???

What ever portal your camera is in in sapien is the selected portal.