Simviation Forum - Rain Showers

Feb 27^th, 2006 at 4:43pm

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I think it would be really neat and really easy to implement rain showers, like you see in storms where there are small pockets of heavy rain. Like this...

It would be easy to do, sometimes a goofy bug or something does it in FS9, kind of....

Just something I thought of. Wink

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Reply #1 - Feb 27^th, 2006 at 5:29pm

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Strange, I've never seen that in FS9 before???

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Reply #2 - Feb 28^th, 2006 at 3:08pm

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I've had that experience...I always assumed it to be a clouds glitch or something...but it looks nonetheless Wink

It would be excellent to have those...nice clam flying and then wham...small patch of rain...and I would love to have a wiper effect with that... 8)

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Reply #3 - Feb 28^th, 2006 at 3:46pm

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..and I would love to have a wiper effect with that... 8)

There's actually a few planes out there that do that. It's pretty cool.

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Reply #4 - Mar 1^st, 2006 at 1:09pm

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There's actually a few planes out there that do that. It's pretty cool.

Yeah! I remembered after I typed it...like the Flight1 ATR 72-500 8) Shocked

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Reply #5 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 1:04am

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Yea that would be cool, and those showers were it rains on one side of the road and no clouds would rock also

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Reply #6 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 8:07am

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how the clouds work is that there flat like a pice of paper and they face you all the time so they look 3d but there not true 3d. but sometimes they dont face you and you see them at a strange angle and i think thats what this shot is

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Reply #7 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 10:15am

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It's goofy, it is one of the 2D cloud textures, but I can fly around it and if you go above the cloud layer, it's the same thing above the cloud layer, which is why I think it is some error, maybe with FSSky World. ???

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Reply #8 - Mar 2^nd, 2006 at 11:35am

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how the clouds work is that there flat like a pice of paper and they face you all the time so they look 3d but there not true 3d. but sometimes they dont face you and you see them at a strange angle and i think thats what this shot is

Because nothing, except for real life, is 3D. Wink

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Reply #9 - Mar 3^rd, 2006 at 12:14pm

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well actualy MS has an explination of how clouds for fs 2004 are made on the official site. Quite interesting, if you have full 3d clouds turned on they are made of thousands of textured rotating polygons with variable transparancy.

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Reply #10 - Mar 3^rd, 2006 at 2:01pm

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how the clouds work is that there flat like a pice of paper and they face you all the time so they look 3d but there not true 3d. but sometimes they dont face you and you see them at a strange angle and i think thats what this shot is

All clouds are 3D unless you have the percentage of 3D clouds turned down.

See kipman's link above ^

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