I see no raindrops on the windshield, and the rain animations falling and hitting the ground looks like a cartoon to me.  Are y'all having the same experience?

Edited November 26, 20241 yr by Blueline308

The rain on windshield effect is pretty weak, sometimes it's not even there. Also, I am pretty sure they said they implemented functioning wipers but the one time I saw drops on the windshield and turned on the wipers, not much happened. 

Yes they mentioned working wipers with 2024. I have yet to see this working. 

Fenix wipers are working in 2024. Very strange since default planes should use the new wiper effects as well. Either a bug or rushed sim 

Fenix wipers are working in 2024 but default planes do not. Either a bug or rushed sim that didn’t implement default planes using the new wiper technology 

So water is dispersed with the wipers on using the Fenix? At the moment sim crashes when loading the Fenix without any mods 

Yes that is correct. First plane for fs2024 that does it. For me it works fine. Try reinstalling Fenix. It didn’t work for me first time but worked the second

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Edited November 27, 20241 yr by Aviator_2024

I've had a look around but can't find an answer to this, so I'm hoping someone 'in the know' may have the answer. This is what Robert Randazzo said on the PMDG forum in April 2022, clearly aimed at 2020, about the windscreen rain effects:  "We reached out to Asobo on the topic of rain on windshields and the apparent lack of wiper effect. They replied back that the effect is pending. For this reason, we slid that item off of the research agenda since they will turn that on via their own development cycle anyway." I think I'm correct in saying that Fenix have implemented it into the 300 series, but this is a 'workaround' and the effect has not been enabled by default in the sim itself.

So this related to 2020, if it was pending by Asobo back them, do I assume that it has now been implemented in 2024? 

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by Rocky_53

You can have working wipers in 2024 - Addons do have to be updated to be able to use it though. Fenix have added that support in their experimental 2024 update you can see it working in this video:

 

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by Zangoose

2 minutes ago, Zangoose said:

You can have working wipers in 2024 - Addons do have to be updated to be able to use it though. Fenix have added that support in their experimental 2024 update you can see it working in this video:

 

Hi Matt, sure, but I think I'm rght in saying this has been a 'workaround' by the dev. and it is not enabled by default by Asobo within the sim. I may be wrong and happy to be corrected.

5 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

Hi Matt, sure, but I think I'm rght in saying this has been a 'workaround' by the dev. and it is not enabled by default by Asobo within the sim. I may be wrong and happy to be corrected.

Fenix did have a workaround in 2020 but in 2024 it's not the same workaround I believe and uses the native 24 support. 

There is native support for wiper effects in 2024. The 2024 SDK has a dedicated page about it: https://docs.flightsimulator.com/msfs2024/html/3_Models_And_Textures/Modeling/Aircraft/Airframe/Windshield_And_Windows.htm but developers do need to add it to their addons to be able to use it. 

I don't believe there is any other 2024 addons that use said support at this time (I could be wrong on that) which is why you may not be seeing it in anything other than Fenix at this time. 

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by Zangoose

3 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

it is not enabled by default by Asobo within the sim. I

doesn't work in the Asobo default Saab 340.

13 minutes ago, turbomax said:

doesn't work in the Asobo default Saab 340.

All very odd. 

Edited November 27, 20241 yr by Rocky_53

22 minutes ago, Rocky_53 said:

Hi Matt, sure, but I think I'm rght in saying this has been a 'workaround' by the dev. and it is not enabled by default by Asobo within the sim. I may be wrong and happy to be corrected.

Hey - I can confirm that the wiper effect in the Fenix A32X for MSFS 2024 is simply the one described in the SDK. No work arounds here, we simply followed the SDK page on wipers, it took us about 15-20 minutes to implement across all 3 aircraft variants. It simply seems that none of the default aircraft use this feature except the AS350.

9 minutes ago, FNX_Dave said:

Hey - I can confirm that the wiper effect in the Fenix A32X for MSFS 2024 is simply the one described in the SDK. No work arounds here, we simply followed the SDK page on wipers, it took us about 15-20 minutes to implement across all 3 aircraft variants. It simply seems that none of the default aircraft use this feature except the AS350.

Ah ha, brilliant Dave. it sounds like it was a straightforward process. Let's hope PMDG can also impelement it in their line of planes. Many thanks.