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MSFS20 Fly through clouds effect

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Since there are seemingly no advanced "fly through clouds effects" in the simulator, the question would be,
could such effects be added to an aircraft?
By advanced "fly through clouds effects" I mean the effects that occur when you fly through
dense clouds (cloud vapor that flowed around engines and wings covers the
wings and the engines and make them partly or completely invisible from the cabin).
 
The effects in MSFS are based on the particle system of FSX. I think they just didn't have the time to get something more modern up and running for release, however Asobo is working on a completely new particle system for MSFS right now!
I'm sure when that gets released, we'll see all sorts of jaw-dropping effects popping up in the sim.

In the meantime, you COULD start designing your own cloud effects, but know that it'll eventually be entirely obsolete.
 
Vitus said:
The effects in MSFS are based on the particle system of FSX. I think they just didn't have the time to get something more modern up and running for release, however Asobo is working on a completely new particle system for MSFS right now!
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By doing it with an effect added to an aircraft, the problem would be how to start the effect inside a cloud
and stop it when the aircraft is out again.

Another problem would be, how to start the effect only if the cloud has the right conditions
or if this isn't possible at least not every time the aircraft fly through a cloud.

At first I thought the new 3d clouds could do the effect by themselves.
That doesn't seem to be the case, at least for now.
The question would be whether that is not yet realized or isn't it possible in principle?
 
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