about the rain effect

[ACG_Flyby]

Nothing like flying a low-alt strike in a driving rain. The effect of rain streaming along the side cockpit panes is very nice, close to realistic, and so very immersive. Rain on the windshield does not seem to benefit as much from that "streaming" effect. With wind screens being generally slanted away from the plane's nose , is it possible to consider altering the rain drops which strike the windscreen so that they stream upward or to the sides and at a quicker rate (since the air speed is literally blasting/streaming them from the windscreen? A car with a rain repellent (such as RainX) makes the rain stream away at highway speeds over 60mph/100kph on the highway.  

This video shows what I'm speaking of (notice the drops hitting the windshield do not spread so much as in the sim: 

thank you,

Flyby out

D'oh! Actually the splatters in the sim are very close to RL. So, in stead, notice the droplets stream upward (probably as much from the speed of flying as from the propeller blast, in this case)

Flyby out

[BlitzPig_EL]

I'll guess that the 172 is flying at a speed where most of the planes in the sim would simply fall out of the sky.  You can't compare the rain effect at those speeds to how they should look on a WW2 bird that runs the pattern at speeds the Cessna can barely achieve.

[Hirachi]

 

 

 

[I.JG3_CDRSEABEE]

I like it until it's winter, snow everywhere and still water droplets on the canopy. ?

[ShamrockOneFive]

48 minutes ago, CDRSEABEE said:

I like it until it's winter, snow everywhere and still water droplets on the canopy. ?

 

I'm hoping that one day they will replace the water droplets with some ice crystal formation. Even if its subtle.

[wombatBritishBulldogs]

1 hour ago, Heshima said:

 

 

 

What a great thing 

[Uufflakke]

17 hours ago, CDRSEABEE said:

I like it until it's winter, snow everywhere and still water droplets on the canopy. ?

 

Not anymore since today's game update 3.007! 

 

32. Water drops on windshield have been removed during winter (unrealistic)

https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/12826-game-updates/?tab=comments#comment-694176

 

 

[ACG_Flyby]

20 hours ago, BlitzPig_EL said:

I'll guess that the 172 is flying at a speed where most of the planes in the sim would simply fall out of the sky.  You can't compare the rain effect at those speeds to how they should look on a WW2 bird that runs the pattern at speeds the Cessna can barely achieve.

I can't be certain, but I believe the speed of an aircraft has a lot to do with the dispersion rate of the water on the windscreen. If it seems a slow dispersion in the Cessna's windscreen, then  perhaps things happen a bit faster as airspeed increases (and someone explain to me how it should be, please)? After all, the force of the air on the windscreen as the speed increases would seem to have a greater effect on in moving the rain on the windscreen. I think? The video of the Cessna was just an example. I think aircraft speed matters. Maybe the effect of the rain on the windscreen could be modeled for aircraft speed? 

Flyby out  

[Requiem]

The rain drops are great on the ground but in my experience (going up to 320kts / 600kmhr) they would need to be much thinner with more of them to look like what you see in RL. It doesn’t take long in terms of airspeed for the rain to start creating these thin streams across the windscreen. Here is an example but it doesn’t do justice to how it looks in motion.

[kestrel79]

Hey it could be worse...we could have Warthunder's raindrop effect. Looks like you're about to hit lightspeed in the Falcon. I think it looks pretty good and in time I'm sure it will be tweaked and improved.

[ACG_Flyby]

1 hour ago, SYN_Requiem said:

The rain drops are great on the ground but in my experience (going up to 320kts / 600kmhr) they would need to be much thinner with more of them to look like what you see in RL. It doesn’t take long in terms of airspeed for the rain to start creating these thin streams across the windscreen. Here is an example but it doesn’t do justice to how it looks in motion.

this is a better representation of what I thought the rain might look like at higher speeds. As was said, maybe one day BoS will improve the effect. It's not bad overall. I like the streaming on side panes. Maybe I just need to fly faster?

Flyby out