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3.4 RC1 - No snow or rain in internal views (SOLVED)

Postby Necolatis » Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:10 am

In internal views there is no snow.


FG 3.4 RC1
Basic weather with Live metar
Windows 7 64bit, geforce 520m
Plane 777-300ER and others


d:\ProgramFiles\FlightGear34rc1\bin\fgfs.exe
--fg-root=d:\ProgramFiles\FlightGear34rc1\data
--fg-scenery=C:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\FlightGear\Custom Scenery;d:\ProgramFiles\FlightGear34rc1\data\Scenery;d:/ProgramFiles/terrasync
--terrasync-dir=d:\programfiles\terrasync
--fg-aircraft=C:\Users\Nikolai\Documents\FlightGear\Aircraft;d:/ProgramFiles/Development/Git/flightgear-saab-ja-37-viggen/Aircraft
--airport=EKCH
--runway=04L
--aircraft=777-300ER
--language=en
--console
--disable-random-objects
--prop:/sim/rendering/random-vegetation=false
--enable-horizon-effect
--enable-enhanced-lighting
--enable-ai-models
--enable-ai-traffic
--enable-real-weather-fetch
--geometry=1366x768
--bpp=32
--texture-filtering=4
--prop:/sim/rendering/multi-sample-buffers=1
--prop:/sim/rendering/multi-samples=4
--timeofday=noon
--enable-terrasync
--httpd=8080
--disable-fgcom
--prop:/sim/rendering/max-paged-lod=8
--prop:/sim/tile-cache/enable=false
--prop:/sim/rendering/multithreading-mode=AutomaticSelection
--prop:/sim/sound/voices/enabled=0
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Thorsten » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:32 am

In internal views there is no snow.


Falling as precipitation? On the ground of a glacier landclass? On the surface of a tropical island? Generated by a shader effect with dynamical snowline? Inside the plane?
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby jarl.arntzen » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:09 am

@Necolatis: A screenshot would help immensly :)
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:18 pm

Sorry, falling snow. The plane is on the runway, view is from the cockpit, and looking out the windows there is no falling snow. In external views there is falling snow.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Mon Feb 02, 2015 2:29 pm

I can reproduce by putting SHSN in the metar.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Thorsten » Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:30 pm

I'm guessing that's completely normal and the behaviour of ages ago. The osg precipitation code doesn't mesh too well with our shader framework, so whenever you try to render rain through a transparent texture (such as a cockpit window with just a tad of reflection texture) you don't see any precipitation. Only planes which don't have a transparent texture window work okay.

Can't be fixed without basically re-writing the whole way precipitation is done by osg, simply not worth it.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:09 pm

No, that is not it, cause tried to open canopy in a plane, and still did not see snow falling.

Also it works fine in C172, because it has its cockpit view defined as not being internal.

So it has to do with the view being internal.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Thorsten » Mon Feb 02, 2015 7:43 pm

Sorry, I can't reproduce this. Cockpit view in the c172p is definitely marked as internal view here (I checked both current view and the view definition), and snow works fine, so in the cockpit view of the ufo and the DR400 Dauphin. So I can't see that it has to do with internal or not. Checking for 10 minutes, I couldn't find any behaviour I haven't observed for a long time.

Incidentially, I also see proper precipitation from the 777-300ER cockpit.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:38 pm

Well C172 has this, so assumed it was not internal:

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<view>
         <internal archive="y">false</internal>
         <config>
            <pitch-offset-deg>-8</pitch-offset-deg>
         </config>
      </view>



Anyway, if you don't have this problem I guess its related to my settings somehow.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Hyde » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:16 am

Necolatis wrote in Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:38 pm:Anyway, if you don't have this problem I guess its related to my settings somehow.

I have same problem here.
Yes, I wanted to change 777 to see precipitation and snow but not succeeded.
I changed view internal to false then I can see snow but also cockpit was vanished.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Thorsten » Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:03 am

My c172p doesn't have these lines, mine has

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  <view>
   <internal type="bool" archive="y">true</internal>
   <config>
     <x-offset-m archive="y" type="double">-0.21</x-offset-m>
     <y-offset-m archive="y" type="double">0.235</y-offset-m>
     <z-offset-m archive="y" type="double">0.36</z-offset-m>
     <pitch-offset-deg type="double">-12</pitch-offset-deg>
   </config>
  </view>
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Hyde » Tue Feb 03, 2015 12:49 pm

Thorsten wrote in Tue Feb 03, 2015 7:03 am:My c172p doesn't have these lines, mine has

Yes, mine ether. I should have checked first.
Anyway, I still have this issue on 777,
I checked on PC-9M, too. It doesn't work ether even canopy opened.
You mentioned it worked on 777-300ER.
What is the difference, I wonder. :?:
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:15 pm

Yes, I double checked, it seems I looked at the wrong c172 -set.xml file.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow in internal views

Postby Necolatis » Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:18 pm

This is still an issue in FG 3.5

Also rain has the same problem. For example +SHRA

Tried setting /sim/current-view/internal to false, and immediately I can see the precipitation.
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Re: 3.4 RC1 - No snow or rain in internal views  

Postby Necolatis » Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:41 am

YEAH!!!!

I solved it. It was not a bug, but apparently a feature.
In $FGDATA/Nasal/aircraft.nas is a rain section. Lots of planes uses it in their tiresmoke effect file, so I assumed I had to do aswell to get better tiresmoke in rain.
That system disables rain when in internal view. What I really wonder is why so many aircrafts would want that!

Anyway if the aircraft has something like this, then rain is disabled in internal views:

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aircraft.rain.init();

var rain = func {
   aircraft.rain.update();
   settimer(rain, 0);
}

# == fire it up ===
rain()
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