In the DSF specification I read: “Triangles must have clockwise rotation as seen from above for all triangle primitives”.

The latter case matches what I experienced during my various works on terrain meshes and can be easily retraced by decoding a DSF2TXT: Triangles in Primitives of type 0 are oriented clockwise as well as triangles of Primitives of type 1 (when you extract the single triangles of a traingles strip 123,243,345, they are oriented clockwise).

Please enlighten me 🙂

Thanks, Matthias

Thanks Ben! I’ll look into using the panel texture as my raindrop canvas. Hopefully it’s an RGBA texture and not just an RGB texture.

You can draw on your airplane by drawing on the ‘panel’ and then use that in ANY aircraft of your object.

You can’t just randomly find X-Plane textures and scribble over them. We make NO guarantees that our various textures remain stable, so we didn’t make an interface where you get to find them and mod them.

PS: Actually, with the new shaders, clouds are so beautiful, and weather has been consistently working so well lately (not sure if you’ve been improving it slightly as well), that I’m not so anxious about a weather engine anymore… What would really be great would be the ability to set some default visibility value when all we’ve got is the “9999” from the METAR, like most weather engines. The world is not normally so hazy 🙂

Cheers!

Okay, did a bit of research and it seems Laminar Research doesn’t want plugins to get at its textures other than the panel because… well, they just don’t. So my plan to paint water droplets onto a texture drawn by X-Plane won’t work. That’s a shame. So I guess I’ll need to draw a 3D object representing my canopy glass and animate it correctly when the canopy opens and closes. It probably won’t work with future versions of X-Plane since drawing 3D will eventually be forbidden, if I understand things correctly. Oh well.

It’s original performance drop not 3rd

And yep, I filled a bug already. Credits for video to mSparks43.

By the way, the bug for the “new cloud transparency bug” is filed. It’s quite easy to replicate, just fly above the layer of clouds, place your camera beneath the layer of clouds and look up to your airplane. The lights of the airplane are drawn before the clouds, so you can see the airplane through the clouds.

In any case, it is so much better now. Literally all I need now is Active Sky to come out and I’ll be one very happy customer 🙂

Thanks a lot,
Bruno

Btw, the dust cloud in the helicopter is awesome!

Kind of safe-mode would be nice, maybe asking for which plugins and/or scenrry packages to load or not.
But maybe some timing histogram with times spent in which plugin (or visual effect) could give nice insights.