Rain Maker - 2D and 3D Rain Particle System for Unity

Rain Maker - 2D and 3D Rain Particle System for Unity

LaunchedApr 201511.1y

UpdatedMay 20224.1yAbandoned?

Digital Ruby (Jeff Johnson)

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Package size9.18 MB

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Pros

The asset is highly regarded for its simplicity, ease of use, and lightweight performance, making it an excellent free solution for adding rain effects to Unity projects. Users appreciate the intuitive configuration, the camera-following functionality, and the inclusion of splash effects and sound, which provide a high-quality aesthetic for both 2D and 3D environments without the heavy memory overhead of more complex alternatives.
While the visual output is impressive for a free asset, the blatant misrepresentation of URP/HDRP compatibility makes it a maintenance liability that requires manual shader intervention for any modern production pipeline.

Cons

The primary drawback is the misleading claim of URP and HDRP compatibility, as the included custom shaders are built exclusively for the legacy Built-in Render Pipeline, resulting in pink textures and broken visuals in modern projects. Users frequently report frustration over the lack of official support, requiring them to manually swap shaders or write custom HLSL code to achieve functionality, alongside minor issues regarding input control toggles and occasional particle behavior glitches during runtime.
Legacy Software: this asset was last updated 4.1 years since update. Verify compatibility before purchase.

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Description

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For a full weather system, with improved lighting, time of day, sun, clouds, sky sphere, lightning, etc. please purchase my new Weather Maker asset at https://u3d.as/s0Z


Rain Maker is a highly tuned set of particle systems, sounds and scripts to make great rain for your game or app. Rain Maker will save you many hours of time and is a great value.


With rain maker, your rain automatically adapts to the lighting in your scene. With built in weather for wind, rain collisions, light handling and seamless sounds, Rain Maker is an easy drop in solution for rain and mist.


Rain maker also has a 2D mode that handles that pesky orthographic size and 2D collisions for you.


Combine Rain Maker with my Procedural Lightning for a great storm: http://u3d.as/f1c


Here's what Rain Maker can do for you:


- Control intensity of the rain (0-1)

- Your own highly configurable script to determine rain behavior

- The Rain Maker shader is highly optimized to light all your rain properly and efficiently, and looks great even with per vertex lighting

- Higher intensity rain has a nice mist effect

- Separate materials for rain drops, rain splash and rain mist, with lots of configuration options

- Built in looping sounds for wind, light rain, medium rain and torrential rain

- Seamless and clean sound and visual transitions between rain intensity changes

- 2D mode

- Easily expandable. Just copy the prefab and tweak the properties for new rain, snow or anything else you can think of.


As always, please read the Readme.txt file that comes with the asset so you can get the maximum value from this great package.


For a full weather system, with improved lighting, time of day, sun, clouds, sky sphere, lightning, etc. please purchase my new Weather Maker asset at http://u3d.as/s0Z


I'm Jeff Johnson and I spent many hours making this asset just for you. I hope you enjoy it. Support is available for paid downloads at support@digitalruby.com.


Key features

Easy to use rain storm and simple clouds