Right, so I-ve already determined that with the plane not moving it falls vertical, unless you move the camera...

 

My gripe now is that even though the effect really SUCKS when you move and the rain comes at you like a warp tunnel, this should not be seen when you use an outside view...

 

If you look from the outside, rain falls straight (unless there-s wind etc.) but in the sim, when you're moving if you go to the outside cam there too rain goes sideways!

Unfortunately, that was the way FSX was coded.  Precipitation is always vertical, but any movement of your view causes it to appear to fall at an angle.

That's down to the camera moving along with the plane, so it's sort of correct if you think about the fact the camera is also moving through the air, as if it was another plane.

 

I now understand what you're problem is, however that is FSX.

 

I don't know if PrecipitFX will fix that. It's cheap ~£8, but I don't have it so someone else will need to comment.

 

I also don't know if it's any different in P3D, again, someone else will have to comment on that

PrecipitFX vastly improved the way rain and snow looks, standstill and moving. Not to mention a whole host of other stuff. Definitely worth the cost.

So I have recently done a fresh install of FSX, started installing also all the add-ons starting with FTX Global, FS Global Ultimate Mesh, UTX USA/Europe, and lastly yesterday Rex4 TD w/Soft Clouds.

 

 

I decided to set rain for the weather, and man was I surprised at what I saw....

 

 

Rain practically flies horizontally coming straight at you???

 

In flight it seems like Han hit the hyperdrive button and I'm heading straight to Alderaan  (well, were it *used* to be, you know...)

 

 

WTH is going on??? Doesn't rain look like rain? :S

I can't remember if it was one or the other or a combination of both, but PrecipitFX and Steve' DX10 Fixer fixed it for me. Now the rain looks real.

 

This is what I see now, disregard the special effects on the aircraft, just look at the rain. At the beginning of the video and again at 6:18.

 

Another plug here for precipitFX. Quite simply, it fixes the rain and snow. The other effects are nice as well but that alone is well worth the price if the rain effects bother you as much as they did me (and judging by this thread they do!).

 

James

So what payware planes come with rain on windscreen? I know the Turbine Duke does but what others?

Definitely will get precipitfx, and I want to get the immersion packages too, since I own the 777 and Airbus packages, but first I want to learn a bit before spending on an add-on I won't use right away...

 

Anybody know if they ever do sales?

Given the price, £8, I doubt it

I've seen other devs out all their addons on sale, doesn't matter the value just if they actually have sales or not.

So what payware planes come with rain on windscreen? I know the Turbine Duke does but what others?

I believe PMDG includes it in many of their aircraft.

 

 

So what payware planes come with rain on windscreen? I know the Turbine Duke does but what others?

 

Flysimware MU-2

PMDG J-41

I believe PMDG includes it in many of their aircraft.

I think it is only on their J41.

I'll just leave this here as simmers expectations of what rain is like when flying an aircraft tends to be polar opposites of reality;

 

FSX taking the windshield rain effect out could be argued to be more realistic from a pilots POV than the weird FS2004 style effects that looked like a car driving under 60mph and not at aircraft.

Wow, thanks for that video. RealAir must have seen this video when setting up their rain effect because it looks exactly like it even to the point of leaving little spots on the windscreen. 

 

The rain really just blows right off the windscreen like a fast car with Rain X applied. 

 

Thanks for verifying the realistic rain effects I am getting with the Duke. Now if more of you Devs would get with it and allow us more immersion. 

 

By the way, RealAir rain effects have 0 impact on my frame rates.