Project Snow

[pwrpckron]

I'm using ADK Snow Effect 1.0 and cant get a realist snowflake. I've tried several different codes for the flake and none of them work for a realist flake..... any suggestions?
Currently using the "*" and it displays the flake as a 5 point star.

TIA
Ron

[revwill]

Greetings all,

Merry Christmas to all, only less than 2 days to go.  Maybe for once we may get real snow this Season.

I was entering a message and as always went to preview the message before posting and all I got was Fetching Preview...  and nothing.  I have my original help message in the 2.0 support and someone had mentioned it could be a javascript interference with this awesome mod I have installed?  Not sure if that is the case, but best to come here and place my plea for help.

Thank you so much. 

Be safe this Holiday Season

William

[revwill]

I'm using ADK Snow Effect 1.0 and cant get a realist snowflake. I've tried several different codes for the flake and none of them work for a realist flake..... any suggestions?
Currently using the "*" and it displays the flake as a 5 point star.

TIA
Ron

Be glad to help.  Here is a little info I answered to a previous Post.  Though I am quite happy with this MOD.

This is what I use for our site: ❅ Just copy and then paste into the character field.  You can see it here at: Visit here.  To see Snowflake .  We are a prayer group just using our site as a demonstration of the unicode snowflake character hex code is:

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The Character itself can be copied and pasted in this mod as well.

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William

[pwrpckron]

when I paste the character or the code  just the code number appears not a flake

[revwill]

When you paste the code, are you putting in the semicolon as well?  Seems to me, I had to put the code into the .js file and the semicolon is needed as well.  There are three different scripts that use a .js file and not the nifty admin panel this mod gives you.  If you are using project snowflake, simpliest was in admin is just to paste the seen character and it works like a champ.  If you have to go into the I think its called snowflake.js file, you will need to enter the entire hex code with the semicolon.

William

[Matthew K.]

I'm on vacation so my reply will be limited for the time-being.

- I doubt that JS error comes from Snowstorm, if it does, you'll have to contact the JS script author (check credits) as I only wrote the SMF integration portion.

- I appreciate the comments about the nice admin panel, eventually I want to expand it when HTML5 is more widely supported with their input fields so I don't have to write my own framework to bring global browser support.

- As William already stated, you can add either the actual character OR the entity to the admin panel (Character to Snow) and it should work, as also stated make sure to include the trailing semi-colon.

Best Regards,
Labradoodle-360

[hcfwesker]

I really love the fact this has been the "Featured Mod" on the mod site page for the entire summer

Lab_360 is too pro as always!

[Matthew K.]

The featured customizations very rarely ever change...if ever. No one does it But...when I was on the Customization team, right after I wrote this, I got permission to add it to the list. Call it bias if you want

[DarkAngel612]

In admin, we can insert character for snow --- * --- for instance then change size. Is there anyway to insert a small jpg for other holidays or using a dingbat font to insert a character that way?

I remember using this once when it was just there and no way to turn it off for some and really love this new feature. Thus I would love to have it be used most of the year thru various holidays or just having like fairy dust since our forum is fantasy.

[Matthew K.]

As of now, there is no easy way to change the specific character to an image. This may be included in the next version. I was hoping to write an update before Christmas, but on top of finals, I've been extremely sick for the past few weeks, so school is now that much more important. I will try to pump this one out before it stops snowing where I'm from

[DarkAngel612]

Sweety you take care of you primarily, without you around who gonna help the others make mods for us to play with.

I love that you added the part to turn it off per member and it would be great to be able to use a small graphic or two, like a snowflake, christmas present or tree or Santa---or other holidays like Valentine's, St. Patrick or my favorite Halloween...LOL

but that can wait until you get better.

Thanks

[Matthew K.]

Originally, when I first wrote the modification, it was simply implementing a snow effect, on top of SMF. The updated version was intended to not just lay the snow script on top of SMF, but it was designed to implement a lot of the manipulatable JavaScript variables to SMF so that the settings already available would be easy to change on an SMF installation.

Back then, I didn't know JavaScript very well at all. I could play with it and we could be friendly, but I wasn't able to do much. Now, that has changed. At one point, I had tried to use an actual image rather than a character, but it would've required actual changes to the snow script on a much deeper level than just tweaking a variable or two. This should be something that I can accomplish much more quickly now. So I'd definitely look into this for an update.

Right after developing Project Snow, I worked with another developer on making a "Forum Weather" modification that would have snow, rain, leaves and other such effects available to your forum. Unfortunately however, it was dropped pretty quickly due to no one being able to write the JavaScript for me.

[DarkAngel612]

Yup that would do it...LOL

All I do is copy/paste info given to me on editing and fixing files so I think it is great to do things like this.

[~aura~]

great mod, i was wondering could it be used to have hearts falling for Valentines day?

if so how would i go about it *S*

many thanks for sharing your skills

[DarkAngel612]

great mod, i was wondering could it be used to have hearts falling for Valentines day?

if so how would i go about it *S*

many thanks for sharing your skills

I asked oo cause I thought it would be great to use for other seasons too. Unfortunately not yet though but I think he is working on it. My zen cart store has  a snow effect too and all I have to do is add any little image I want and name it snow.gif to overwrite the other one.

[~aura~]

Dark Angel, i was about to post, opps sorry its been asked for, i didnt see the last few posts.

its a great mod, i thought it would make the days up to Valentines Day more fun on our forum

aura

[ni_hao]

As of now, there is no easy way to change the specific character to an image. This may be included in the next version

we are almost one year further... I also want to have the possibility to change the character for 1 or more small images. Has there been any progress or when can we expect that change?

I live in the Netherlands and in the beginning of December we have an event called "Santa Claus". Everybody here knows Santa Claus and his Black Peters. So I would like to have falling down (in stead of snow) small pictures of Santa Claus and Black Peter.

Before the forum was running with vBulletin and they had such a mod (js based). If you want I can  send you that js file.

[brynn]

Hi Friends,
I just discovered Project Snow, and quite enjoy it.  I haven't been able to read the whole 22 pages of messages, but from what I've read, it seems excessive cpu use seems to be a known issue.

I'm wondering if anyone has either figured out the kind of cofiguration that goes easiest on visitors' cpu, or even just stumbled upon it?

I'm rather known for having a good deal of patience, and don't give up easy on a problem, if it's something I really want.  But I've spent a few hours daily, over the last week or so, trying to find some kind of balance that allows a nice gentle snowfall, but doesn't cause my computer fan to run constantly. 

I have not found any acceptable configuration.  So I'm wondering if anyone else has?

I actually have had to uninstall it, for the time being, and I can't remember the name of the setting that was a trade off between cpu use and the speed of the snowfall.  But best setting I found for that was 50.  But maybe if there was a way to understand how the various options affect each other, it would help to discover that optimum balance.

Unfortunately, it seems to be entirely a matter of trial and error.  Isn't there some way to make sense of it all?

Thanks for your help   

[DarkAngel612]

The best feature to me on this mod unlike the other versions....is that in admin you can choose to turn it off for any month not wanting the snow, and the most important thing----allow members to turn it off in their profiles for those with slower machines or that do not want it to snow.

Ii had to remove mine cause of server issues but now it won't install with version 2.0.9 of SMF, too bad cause I do want it still.

[brynn]

Thanks DarkAngel.  Yes, I'm aware of those options.  But if members have to disable it, to prevent the heavy cpu use, what's the point of installing it?

It's working for me on 2.0.9, but if there's some conflict, maybe that's exaggerating the cpu issue?