Rain Effects on the windows

[Dapperdan]

How can I get rain effects on the windows on the C172?
Dan

[DHenriques_]

How can I get rain effects on the windows on the C172?
Dan

Have you tried flying in the rain ?

Dudley Henriques

[Dapperdan]

Thanks, I flying around north Florida Lots of rain.

[DHenriques_]

Thanks, I flying around north Florida Lots of rain.

Be down there soon. Visiting in Ormond Beach in November.

FSX does have rain effects. I use them all the time working an instrument problem or going IFR cross country. They aren't all that bad really.
DH

[taildraggin68]

I would love to see this kind of effect but it would probably kill the frame rates

[Caldemeyn]

Maybe someday, like here http://www.lotussim.com/features-genera ... fects.html

[bliksimpie]

I would love to see this kind of effect but it would probably kill the frame rates

there are many addon developers that have added it without virtually Zero impact to their models.
Realair, Anthony from ants airplanes, milviz, comes to mind

BUT

then none are as complex as A2A

I sure hope we can see it one day in A2A

[Caldemeyn]

It would be nice to have it, however not at the expense of sacrifacing other features, so im happy with what we have now. A2A knows best what they can and can't do.

[Lewis - A2A]

I do to believe you will ever see this on an FSX Accu-sim add-on . The rain effect simply is too hard a hit on the frame rate and the SDK numbers (you can only have x amount of switches, animations etc etc in any one aircraft) to be useful unfortunately. Plus to be honest in 2014 it's a very old school effect that doesn't fit into today's standards.

Thanks,
Lewis




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[taildraggin68]

Yes Lewis, but the thought of breaking through the clouds on approach and realizing that you forgot the rain-x in the maintenance hanger and your windscreen is polluted from the rain making that final just a little bit sweaty would be the complete immersion factor

[Dapperdan]

Thanks everyone Just a thought why no rain effects on FSX and FS2004 had it.

[caribpilot]

If I am not mistaken, PMDG added the rain effect to the JS41 and the frame rates are great. Is it just a matter of the quality of the effect that determines the frame rates? If so, it doesn't have to be anything fancy. Once it looks realistic enough that will suffice...

[bliksimpie]

If I am not mistaken, PMDG added the rain effect to the JS41 and the frame rates are great. Is it just a matter of the quality of the effect that determines the frame rates? If so, it doesn't have to be anything fancy. Once it looks realistic enough that will suffice...

also Realair, Anthony from ants airplanes, milviz, comes to mind with virtually zero impact if at all, but A2A is not currently taking the bait.. So we will have to live without it.

Been discussed so many times here. it still stay a dream for many, but most have accepted the fact it's not gonna happen here at A2A soon if ever

[Lewis - A2A]

Hey guys, it does have an impact on frame rate's that's not really up for discussion as its a fact. However this is NOT why we don't put this in. Its simply because of what it takes to put it in in resources. You can only have so many effects, so many x so many y and the rain effect takes up masses of this. If we where to add the rain effect would would have to bring our simulation level down from the FAA certified level we have now attained. From an end user POV that could mean anything from the removal of the cockpit options, and payload manager or the maint hanger. This is naturally something we are not going to do for a 2006 rain effect that quite simply isn't realistic in its representation even if it was implemented in our sims.

thanks,
Lewis