I look pretty pissed in this video – its probably due to inclement weather.
My implementation of Text Rain is fairly straightforward. The code is probably longer than needed for the simple effect, but I added some things, and wrote it because I thought this was something that could be made better in the future. One thing I really want to do is add awesome lightning effects that I can control with my hands.
Each droplet is an object with position variables and it’s derivatives. Every run through the draw loop, these are updated according to the preset numbers. Since I have acceleration in my droplets, it was important for me to limit the droplet speed using a terminal velocity. Finding these numbers was done by trial and error, and no doubt there is still room for improvement.
/* Droplets fall from the top of the screen and stop when they reach a certain threshold */
class Droplet{
//The character we are drawing
char c;
//The font size the droplet is being drawn
int size;
//The current position, velocity, and acceleration of the drop
float x, y, x_v, y_v, x_a, y_a;
//The starting position, velocity, and acceleration of the drop
int init_x, init_y, init_x_v, init_y_v, init_x_a, init_y_a;
//The width and height of the
int width, height;
//Terminal velocity for the droplet
//Change this value if you want it to snow instead
int terminal_v = 12;
//Whether this droplet is now snow
boolean isSnow;
By default droplets have an alpha value, and so, drops get darker when they are stacked. This made sense to me, since I think of the droplets as combining like they would in real life.
Aside from what Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv made, my implementation allows you to control the direction of the wind (using left and right keyboard) so that droplets move horizontally as well. Since it is winter, I also added a snow toggle (press shift), which can slow down the droplets. All of this is possible by simply setting the properties of all Droplet objects.