Help with the frost effect

[mexican geek]

Hey hey, I'm making a character and I'd be glad if yall could explain to me how the frost screen overlay that happens at 5 degrees or less works, how can I make it show using code?

 

[Wonderlarr]

I think you're looking for widgets/iceover.lua, that seems to handle the on screen freeze effect. Unfortunately it seems to be hard coded to only work based on temperature, there doesn't seem to be an easy way to arbitrarily call the effect. You'll need to create your own identical effect I believe.

[mexican geek]

Huh, welp, any idea how I do that? Never replicated a whole effect...

[Ziro2k]

The iceover effect is just an image that is overlayed on top of the whole screen, with its transparency adjusted. You can easily make your own version by creating a new widget with this in its file (I called it mynewiceover.lua, can be whatever name you want):

 

local Widget = require "widgets/widget"
local Image = require "widgets/image"


local MyNewIceOver = Class(Widget, function(self, owner)
    self.owner = owner
    Widget._ctor(self, "MyNewIceOver")
    self:SetClickable(false)

    self.img = self:AddChild(Image("images/fx.xml", "ice_over.tex"))
    self.img:SetEffect( "shaders/uifade.ksh" )
    self.img:SetHAnchor(ANCHOR_MIDDLE)
    self.img:SetVAnchor(ANCHOR_MIDDLE)
    self.img:SetScaleMode(SCALEMODE_FILLSCREEN)

end)

return MyNewIceOver

You'll need to add it as a child to the overlayroot of the playerhud as well. If you want to dynamically control its transparency, when it shows up, or play the associated freeze sound, etc. then you'll have to do that using net variables. As it stands this code should just give you a permanent iceover effect. If you need more details on how to do this, feel free to ask.

Edited June 6, 2022 by Ziro2k

[mexican geek]

On 6/6/2022 at 3:13 AM, Ziro2k said:

You'll need to add it as a child to the overlayroot of the playerhud as well. If you want to dynamically control its transparency, when it shows up, or play the associated freeze sound, etc. then you'll have to do that using net variables. As it stands this code should just give you a permanent iceover effect. If you need more details on how to do this, feel free to ask.

Thank you so so much for the help up until now, I'd be glad for an explanation on how to do these things... thanks in advance 

Edited June 10, 2022 by mexican geek

[mexican geek]

bumpin, help please