takahirox / aframe-rain

A-Frame Rainfall effect component
https://cdn.rawgit.com/takahirox/aframe-rain/v1.0.2/index.html
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A-Frame Rain component

aframe-rain is Rainfall effect component for A-Frame which displays a lot of rain drop/splash objects by using instancing technique with good performance.

screenshot

Closer rain drop height is shorter and further rain drop is more transparent, implemented similar to Fog effect technique.

Demo

Demo

Properties

aframe-rain

Properties type Default Value Description
color color '#ddf' Rain drop/splash color
count int 5000 The number of drops/splashes
depthDensity number 0.05 Depth density which affects rain drop height/opacity. The name is from Fog density
dropHeight number 1.0 Rain drop height
dropRadius number 0.005 Rain drop radius
height number 30.0 How high rain drops fall from
opacity number 0.4 Rain drop/splash opacity
splash boolean true If displays rain splash on ground
splashBounce number 4.0 Rain splash bound strongness
splashGravity number 9.8 * 4.0 Rain splash gravity
vector vec3 '0, -40.0 0' Rain drop vector. y must be < 0.0
width number 30.0 Area where rain drop/sphash effect

Browser

How to use

To apply Rain effect in a scene, add rain attribute in <a-scene> like <a-scene rain>.

<head>
  <script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/aframevr/aframe/v0.4.0/dist/aframe-master.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://rawgit.com/takahirox/aframe-rain/master/build/aframe-rain.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <a-scene rain>
    <a-entity position="0 0 10">
      <a-camera></a-camera>
    </a-entity>

    <a-entity geometry="primitive:sphere"></a-entity>

    <a-sky color="#222"></a-sky>

    <a-entity light="type:directional;color:#666" position="-10 -10 -10"></a-entity>
  </a-scene>
</body>

NPM

How to install

$ npm install aframe-rain

How to build

$ npm install
$ npm run all

How to load

require('aframe');
require('aframe-rain');