Rendering Falling Rain and Snow

This page is devoted to the technique we used to render rain and snow in Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight.

• Here is the sketch we submitted to SIGGRAPH 2004.

• Here is the accompanying QuickTime video. The compression was lossy, so the visual quality is slightly reduced. C'est la vie.

• Our article entitled "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow (and rain)" will be published in Game Programming Gems 5.

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This page last updated April 10, 2004.