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FSXA Windshield rain effect

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I spent a few hours today trying to get rain effects on my VC windshield..
I have made a few in fs2004. But I can't seem to get anything to work in fsx.
I checked a few default aircraft and found they only have rain effect on the 2D panel.

here is what i did. I attached VCRainStopped0000 and VCRainMoving0000
to 2 windows. i named the textures Animate_VCRainMoving_01 and Animate_VCRainStopped_01.

I used the texture config to avoid using textures in my project.

So I am wondering is there an fx_effect i need to attach.
FS9 did not need an effect attach except visibility.

I must be missing a step! Please Help:confused:
 
What you are missing is that FSX does not support chained animation files, so the FS9 version of "vc rain" is impossible.

Those few models that have "vc rain" are using a custom scripted XML system and use their own, custom designed textures.
 
Bill is right,but you can copy your FS9 rain textures into your FSX texture folder and use a native FS9 plane like the default B737-400 in FSX and you will then have rain in the vc in FSX.

FSX native models dont support rain in the vc but FS9 models do.

I have four planes from FS9 that work well in FSX for the time i feel like flying with rain in the vc in fsx.

Frits
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I wouldn't dream of sacrificing the high detail possible in an FSX model just for the sake of "vc rain drops."
 
Bill, other than normal and specular bitmaps (and larger textures), what advantages do FSX models have? With the new Unlimited MDL compiling technique for FS9 models, they can be more complex than FSX models.

The larger texture problem can be overcome by using more 1024x1024 textures.
 
Simplicity in compiling for one thing. Having watched/read of Bill's problems with ULE, I simply don't have time for that level of frustration and angst. ;)
 
tgibson said:
Bill, other than normal and specular bitmaps (and larger textures), what advantages do FSX models have? With the new Unlimited MDL compiling technique for FS9 models, they can be more complex than FSX models.

The larger texture problem can be overcome by using more 1024x1024 textures.
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The fs9 mdl in fsx deal breaker for me is the issues with glass and prop textures...There is plenty of scope for some awesome effects in fsx with the ambient xml tags stil being there.....just wish they had one(xml tag) for being in a cloud :D
Wozza
 
Au-MaV said:
Yeah that ended up being a red herring :)
It will trigger when you pass through a cloud layer zone rather than a single cloud (well in my tests anyway)
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Well, it's good enough for sunglasses.

(Who takes off his/her sunglasses when in a single cloud anyways?)
 
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