Here more exciting news about the next release coming from JustSid (source: discord). And this is only about the wipers and rain/ice effects:

Let's see...
 - Wipers pick up rain streaks
 - The surging every few seconds is fixed
 - Icing does what you would expect because the system now simulates and tracks ice accumulation
 - Icing gets affected by the wind direction, so surfaces pointing into the wind will receive icing
 - Icing is read back from the GPU simulation and pumped into the FM so that the flight model and visuals match up
 - Rain spawning is affected by wind direction and gravity, so it won't just spawn on surfaces pointing away from the wind
 - Rain streaks are no longer laminar but get turbulent flow and streak no longer in a straight line
 - Rendering resolution is improved
 - The whole system uses less VRAM
 - There's a bunch of additional commands authors can use to modify the behaviour of the rain, so eg. planes like the Citation X can now properly implement their super hydrophobic coated glass and no longer see streaks on them

All the under the hood hard work in getting the graphics under control is starting to pay off and can see the results based on whats to come. This is indeed great news. 

Edited April 27, 20242 yr by BobFS88