Monikamoddev: [Suggestion] Rainy mood outside the windows

[sebastianN01]

I think that Rainy mood could be something pretty sweet in MAS

Say for example, rain would have a 35% chance of appearing instead of a daytime

And there could be a 15% chance that rain turns into a thunderstorm.

I can make the art for these two, but I have no idea how to code that in. If you, devs, feel like this can idea could be in the game, give me a task or something, idk how github works, and I will try to come up with the art for the weather : )

[IlywI]

i think it is also possible to set weather according to your location so it reflects upon the actual weather you are experiencing currently.
(maybe thru ip address? idk i'm just bullshitting)

[ghost]

Could possibly be done through weather.com (not without some excessive python tho).
The only problem is that it would need a countrycode to function and I have no idea how to retrieve that.
It would probably be possible to fetch a user's ip through some third party service and then have the game determine the user's country by it and retrieve a country code from a table of countries.
There are two big problems with it tho.
Firstly the ip adress does not always correspond to a user's physical location (but that's not so critical, really).
And secondly, MAS has a very thin line on which features are okay and which could be deemed too intrusive or disturbing (and for a good reasons), and this would certainly be too much.

[ghost]

Has all the possible reasons to be too much, really.

• [x] Fetching things from the internet
• [x] Excessive python
• [x] Requires third party services
• [x] Requires user's location info

But the whole idea of syncing the game's weather to your local is certainly fantastic.
Maybe one day...
(Wink-wink, submod system)

[sebastianN01]

Well, I still am going to make rain weather and go with what I said in the first post:

"Say for example, rain would have a 35% chance of appearing instead of a daytime

And there could be a 15% chance that rain turns into a thunderstorm."

Could be useful to have someone write some dialogue about the weather change aswell, and perhaps, some disturbing dialogue if thunderstorm comes up (chance for a good one time jumpscare)

[sebastianN01]

OK, I got the files:
Includes all of the current monikas sprites changed for the rainy mood,
Added monika_day_room_rain and monika_day_room_rain_strike (for thunderstrike effect)
Added Rain_1.ogg and Rain_2.ogg ("heavier" rain)
Added Thunder_1, 2 and 3.ogg files for thunderstrikes
Added Rainy_sky.jpg, window_5_fallback.png, window_6_fallback.png
Added Animated window_5.webm + window_6.webm

[sebastianN01]

webm-soundfx.zip

Monika-sprites-classroom.zip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRlb7fganqU&feature=youtu.be Here's a visual presentation (not an actual scripted rain sound, nor thunder effects or strikes, just a quick replacement of original modded assets)

[ThePotatoGuy]

Loving the sound + window art.

I've asked the rest of the dev team for their opinions, so just sit tight for a bit.

[ThePotatoGuy]

As always, dev team never gives timely feedback.

1. Good work on getting a looping window animation and sound fx. Many people don't do that for some reason.
2. Not sure if I like the grey versions of the sprites/background. I think it's just too gray. Kind of makes the mood dark and gloomy instead of calm and peaceful, which is what I'd say in-game rain should be.

[sebastianN01]

@ThePotatoGuy Alright, I will give you that, I wanted the room to have a different mood when rain is falling, it could also help to for example: run an event of monika asking about our fears or our mood. Rain could be a chance of adding events that happen not so often, as the rain itself i expected to have a small/medium chance of falling at daytime...

But of course, if the rain could've been added, but not the rooms greyed out version, I would be very happy still :)

[oniigirii]

The sound of the rain is very relaxing especially in the Youtube video with _I still love you_ playing in the background. I agree with Potato's comment about being a bit too gray. Would also like to see simple animations on the windows like raindrops hitting on glass for that realistic look, although the sunlight glow on the floor couldn't be animated that easily.

[sebastianN01]

I made them, kind off. not as bubbles though, more like strings of lines that falls down the window.

[PopeAesthetics]

Dam people like you never cease to amaze me. If I wanted to sit down and create art assests, I would have to spend hours and hours figuring everything out and I still wouldn't be able to get whats in my head out onto the screen. Then some people just come along "Oh i have an idea" and whip it up like a 5 star chef whips together a cake. Bravo.

Tho I do agree with Potato. Monika definetly seems like she would love the rain, and to curl up inside with you as the room is filled with the sounds of the rain gently tapping the glass. Peaceful and warm is the vibe I get from rain, not gloomy and grey. Just my thoughts tho.

Also in addition, I do feel we should strive to update the window sprites to look more like an actual place. As of now it looks like we are floating in the sky, and making it look like we are still in a world of some kind really makes the room feel more homey. Like the image below. Just my thoughts tho, feel free to let me know what you guys think.

[ThePotatoGuy]

Can you make a fallback version of the window rain for when animation is disabled?

[sebastianN01]

@PopeAesthetics thank you for kind word. :P and as for the windows, its cool, I do also love some mountain or something else outside windows, go and make your own issue suggesting it! i will try to focus this issue on the rain I made.

[sebastianN01]

@ThePotatoGuy isn't it inside the zip file you can download here? Whatever, I will make them better looking right now, much better, a still shot of the webm, rather than a crudely made photoshop static in moving blur effect. oh and also, I've noticed there is a blue_sky.jpg file, so I decided to do a rain_sky.jpg which is in zip file with monika sprites and all that, Plus Here I will reupload rain-strike effect, if there were ever a thunderstorm to hit. (maybe programmed into the game in future)

[ThePotatoGuy]

Oh I didn't check the other zip.

[sebastianN01]

its ok. these are better than the other one anyway. :)

[sebastianN01]

Im glad i could help. this is really quite a niche i found i could put my work into, and im happy for committing to at least that. I hope i find something else to do in future for mas and your crew. :P

[ThePotatoGuy]

We're still having difficulty deciding the best way to transition to rain.

[IlywI]

maybe darken the usual morning background and then slowly transition into a darker grey(in like a span of 2 minutes?) with monika saying hmm? it started to rain. [player] do you like rainy days... and so on :V idk

[sebastianN01]

I think that the event could be foreseen by monika stating something about the rain and that she might turn it on for us if we want it. and have an option to turn it on and off via "ask a question"

[ThePotatoGuy]

Yeah, having it toggable via Ask a question is not a bad idea. Maybe an initial random topic will have Monika start the rain, and then the start/stop rain option will be unlocked.

(The start prompt should certainly be Can you make it rain? )

[ThePotatoGuy]

IN

[sebastianN01]

Does that mean its in the game? I'm hyped