Project Snow

[Matthew K.]

As stated in the readme's and descriptions I personally did not write the JavaScript, but what you encountered I confirmed.

The only way you can get a change, would be to change it to 0, which makes them disappear, meaning there is a max height/width.
I will contact the script author and do more digging in the code, expect this to change by the next version which will have Admin inputs controlling the settings instead of having to edit the raw Javascript.

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Labradoodle-360

[Matthew K.]

I will be updating Project Snow tonight to include Admin options instead of having to edit the JavaScript.

Any requests on controls that should be added?

[YogiBear]

That's great news, Labradoodle. 

Some control over the speed at which the snow falls would be useful but not essential.

[meniinem]

Hello,

a Checkbox in the Profile to let each user decide if there is any snow woul be great.

Some of my users has Problems that the snow needs a lot of CPU time.

[Matthew K.]

Thanks for the input guys! Shouldn't be too long before 1.1 is released, already working on writing it.

About a user control toggle on/off, expect this by the time Project Snow gets to 1.3, I'd like the Admin options to have a quick release, as user on/off would require more work, but definitely in the works for the mods future as it does slow some computers down by a fair amount (depending on what your settings for it are)

Thanks again,
Labradoodle-360

Hello,

a Checkbox in the Profile to let each user decide if there is any snow woul be great.

Some of my users has Problems that the snow needs a lot of CPU time.

[Matthew K.]

Hey Project Snow Fans!

I have worked on v1.1 for a couple of hours today, and am pleased to announce the frame of it is built and I am down to the last little bit of coding before all of the edits are done.

Version 1.1 Features
User Toggle (Each user can turn the snow off or on)
Permission for User Toggle (This allows Administrators to control what membergroup(s) can toggle the snow via their profile)
Admin inputs for all snow options (How many flakes, color, etc.)

[~DS~]

Hey Project Snow Fans!

I have worked on v1.1 for a couple of hours today, and am pleased to announce the frame of it is built and I am down to the last little bit of coding before all of the edits are done.

Version 1.1 Features
User Toggle (Each user can turn the snow off or on)
Permission for User Toggle (This allows Administrators to control what membergroup(s) can toggle the snow via their profile)
Admin inputs for all snow options (How many flakes, color, etc.)

That is excellent but winter's over soon. 
Any chances of adding rains, or other weathers?

[Matthew K.]

I do apologize for the delays.

Other weathers are in the making, if I can find someone to help me code the JavaScript, it'd go a lot faster.

Labradoodle-360

Hey Project Snow Fans!

I have worked on v1.1 for a couple of hours today, and am pleased to announce the frame of it is built and I am down to the last little bit of coding before all of the edits are done.

Version 1.1 Features
User Toggle (Each user can turn the snow off or on)
Permission for User Toggle (This allows Administrators to control what membergroup(s) can toggle the snow via their profile)
Admin inputs for all snow options (How many flakes, color, etc.)

That is excellent but winter's over soon. 
Any chances of adding rains, or other weathers?

[~DS~]

I do apologize for the delays.

Other weathers are in the making, if I can find someone to help me code the JavaScript, it'd go a lot faster.

Labradoodle-360

Hey Project Snow Fans!

I have worked on v1.1 for a couple of hours today, and am pleased to announce the frame of it is built and I am down to the last little bit of coding before all of the edits are done.

Version 1.1 Features
User Toggle (Each user can turn the snow off or on)
Permission for User Toggle (This allows Administrators to control what membergroup(s) can toggle the snow via their profile)
Admin inputs for all snow options (How many flakes, color, etc.)

That is excellent but winter's over soon. 
Any chances of adding rains, or other weathers?

No need to apologize.
I am no coder, but I came up with this
http://javascript.internet.com/image-effects/rain.html

[Matthew K.]

I will not add scripts that have a link included in them. I will leave author comments in the script itself, but links added to the template I will not use.

[YogiBear]

Any news on developments for 2.0 RC3 in time for this Christmas? 

[Matthew K.]

I was actually very surprised to see this topic bumped, been a while.

Without a doubt, however, this does work using Version Emulate as it's one simple edit to Load.php and a file added - Which is the same path and the edit itself will remain the same even with an update to SMF 2.0 RC3.

Any news on developments for 2.0 RC3 in time for this Christmas? 

Since quite obviously my coding knowledge and skills have improved by a lot since the first release of this mod, I think an update including full mod settings should take me under an hour, so I am going to look into updating it this month; depending on how my time goes.

As of now, I do not plan on supporting SMF 1.x for version 1.1 of Project Snow.

[YogiBear]

Thanks Labradoodle. Great news! 

[Joker™]

first of all very nice mod Labradoodle.

as i have very lil knowledge of JS , can you tell me what would be the difference if we would have simply attached that script in index.template.php using <script> tags ? will there some load issues over servers ?

[Matthew K.]

Thanks!

And the goal is to keep everything out of templates if possible so it is easily installable for other themes.

By putting it in Load.php rather than index.template.php, it works with every theme without manual edits. More effective and cuts down on my support time as well.
$context['html_headers'] is loaded up in every themes index.template.php for that very reason.

Version 1.1 will also have no template edits needed.

[Joker™]

ahh ok thanks a lot, will try to keep that in mind that to play with templates as less as possible

[Matthew K.]

The reason being that it makes mods compatible with all themes rather than just the theme they were coded for. It is required by the SMF Customization Team that everything that can be, loaded in a Source rather than inline template for mods.

[Joker™]

I should hide myself as all my mods are themes based   . just one mod of mine yet to be approved is source based.

[Matthew K.]

As this has gotten quite off topic, I suggest this be split if the conversation should continue or we take it to PM. However, not everything can be controlled via Source, template files do HAVE to be edited in some cases, however, when you can it's good to control it by Source files.

I should hide myself as all my mods are themes based    . just one mod of mine yet to be approved is source based.

[MS Modders Team]

Be sure to keep checking back, Project Snow 1.1 is coming very shortly!