How do I make my rain effect look more like rain and less like snowfall?

Posted by Nikhil Lamba on Game Development See other posts from Game Development or by Nikhil Lamba
Published on 2012-06-16T06:37:02Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 15:23 UTC
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I am making a game in that game I want a rain effect. I am little bit far from this right now. I am creating the rain effect like below:

particleSystem.addParticleInitializer(new ColorInitializer(1, 1, 1));
particleSystem.addParticleInitializer(new AlphaInitializer(0));
particleSystem.setBlendFunction(GL10.GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL10.GL_ONE);
particleSystem.addParticleInitializer(new VelocityInitializer(2, 2, 20, 10));
particleSystem.addParticleInitializer(new RotationInitializer(0.0f, 30.0f));

particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new ScaleModifier(1.0f, 2.0f, 0, 150));
particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new ColorModifier(1, 1, 1, 1f, 1, 1, 1, 3));
particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new ColorModifier(1, 1, 1f, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6));
particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new AlphaModifier(0, 1, 0, 3));
particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new AlphaModifier(1, 0, 1, 125));
particleSystem.addParticleModifier(new ExpireModifier(50, 50));

scene.attachChild(particleSystem);

But it looks like snowfall! What changes can I do for it to look more like rain?

EDIT Here is a screenshot:

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