Glass

[dtlan201]

I managed to deal with the rain splash through the cockpit but the splash only work when you see it outside the cockpit.

when
I change

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   var splash_x = -0.1 - 1.0 * airspeed;
   var splash_y = 0.0;
   var splash_z = 0.4 - 0.7 * airspeed;

    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-x", splash_x);
    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-y", splash_y);
    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-z", splash_z);

to

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   var splash_x = 0.68 - 1.0 * airspeed;
   var splash_y = 0.0;
   var splash_z = 0.4 - 0.7 * airspeed;

    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-x", splash_x);
    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-y", splash_y);
    setprop("/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-z", splash_z);

I can see the rain drop inside the cockpit but can't from the outside

[wlbragg]

Flip the normal

What do you mean? Which way are the normal's pointing. In the c172p they are pointing out. In fact, if I am remembering correctly, if they point in it won't work. If you look at Nasal/weather.nas and also look at the different glass object in Models/c172p.blend. It's fairly complex because we're using multiple glass for different effects. The rain is being applied to the "glas_interior" object.

[dtlan201]

If I flip the normal outside how can I see it from inside cockpit?

[wlbragg]

It's transparent!

[wlbragg]

For anyone interested in improving the rain code that we currently do in nasal. If your aircraft is jsbsim, you can get the rain code out of nasal and use FDM functions and XML in its place. I just finished setting up the c172p this way. It is every bit as flexible and seems to be much smoother. I think this example code can be improved considerably, which I plan to do eventually.
First

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<system name="c172p-glass-effects">

    <channel name="rain">

        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/splashx">
            <function>
                <difference>
                    <value>-0.1</value>
                        <product>
                            <value>2.0</value>
                            <sqrt>
                                <quotient>
                                    <min>
                                        <property>/velocities/airspeed-kt</property>
                                        <value>40</value>
                                    </min>
                                    <value>40</value>
                                </quotient>
                            </sqrt>
                        </product>
                </difference>
            </function>
        </fcs_function>

        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/splashz">
            <function>
                <difference>
                    <value>1.0</value>
                        <product>
                            <value>1.35</value>
                            <sqrt>
                                <quotient>
                                    <min>
                                        <property>/velocities/airspeed-kt</property>
                                        <value>40</value>
                                    </min>
                                    <value>40</value>
                                </quotient>
                            </sqrt>
                        </product>
                </difference>
            </function>
        </fcs_function>

    </channel>

</system>

And then a property rule

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<PropertyList>

    <filter>
        <name>splashX</name>
        <type>gain</type>
        <input>
            <property>/fdm/jsbsim/glass-effects/splashx</property>
        </input>
        <output>
            <property>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-x</property>
        </output>
    </filter>

    <filter>
        <name>splashY</name>
        <type>gain</type>
        <input>
            <value>0.0</value>
        </input>
        <output>
            <property>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-y</property>
        </output>
    </filter>

    <filter>
        <name>splashZ</name>
        <type>gain</type>
        <input>
            <property>/fdm/jsbsim/glass-effects/splashz</property>
        </input>
        <output>
            <property>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-z</property>
        </output>
    </filter>

</PropertyList>

That's all there is to it.

The areas for improvement is to have a "max" on the lower end of the airspeed. The low end of the original nasal function acted strange in my opinion. Also I think a "switch" is needed for when the prop is turned on/off.

[wlbragg]

You can eliminate the property rule filters

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

<system name="c172p-glass-effects">

    <channel name="rain">
   
        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/airspeed-clamped-sqrt">
            <function> 
                <sqrt>
                    <quotient>
                        <min>
                            <property>/velocities/airspeed-kt</property>
                            <value>40</value>
                        </min>
                        <value>40</value>
                    </quotient>
                </sqrt>
            </function>
        </fcs_function>

        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/splashx">
            <function>
                <difference>
                    <value>-0.1</value>
                    <product>
                        <value>2.0</value>
                        <property>/fdm/jsbsim/glass-effects/airspeed-clamped-sqrt</property>
                    </product>
                </difference>
            </function>
            <output>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-x</output>
        </fcs_function>

        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/splashy">
            <function>
               <value>0.0</value>
            </function>
            <output>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-y</output>
        </fcs_function>

        <fcs_function name="glass-effects/splashz">
            <function>
                <difference>
                    <value>1.0</value>
                    <product>
                        <value>1.35</value>
                        <property>/fdm/jsbsim/glass-effects/airspeed-clamped-sqrt</property>
                    </product>
                </difference>
            </function>
            <output>/environment/aircraft-effects/splash-vector-z</output>
        </fcs_function>

    </channel>

</system>

I'm not finished with this. It needs some adjustment to the front end of the effect (no speed to lower speeds)

[wlbragg]

@Thorsten, how hard would it be for you to add another (third) switch similar to the surface-mapping-scheme for the side windows but fo the back window?

I think what we need is one for the back window that would make the rain act opposite what the front window does. Right now we have rain stream up from bottom to top. It does the same in the back but really needs to stream from top to bottom. So would the inverse of what we have now be difficult to program and create a separate switch for?

[Thorsten]

If you point the splash vector onto the front window, the dot product with the normal of a rear window should actually be zero, i.e. if done correctly there should only ever be static raindrops shown on it.

I'm kind of lost as to the use case - do you want to taxi backward?

[dtlan201]

Finally working ! Cheers!!

[wlbragg]

Finally working ! Cheers!!

Glad to hear, did you identify what was wrong?

[wlbragg]

If you point the splash vector onto the front window, the dot product with the normal of a rear window should actually be zero, i.e. if done correctly there should only ever be static raindrops shown on it.

Well then I am not doing it correctly. Our back window on the c172p mimics what is happening on the front window.

[legoboyvdlp]

Dtlan, just a question, what airport is that?
Best,
Lego
(Glad you got it to work. Will it be in the private gitlab dev branch?)

[dtlan201]

It is VVNB(noibai) my custom scenery, you can get ithttp://www.mediafire.com/download/tr9o949eex3rp37/Noibai+Intl.rar
The terminal on the right is using real textures that I taken.I can't remeber if I updated the airport to mediafire yet( so it might not look like in my video)? Also I'm going to replace all of them with real texure soon.Btw I'm trying to test the new rain effectr b4 pushing it to git.

[Thorsten]

Well then I am not doing it correctly. Our back window on the c172p mimics what is happening on the front window.

Well, could you check where the normal is pointing?

In other matters - I think your approach of using property rules rather than Nasal for the splash vector is actually superior - once you are satisfied with it, would you consider altering the Wiki accordingly to establish the property rules as 'best practice'?

[legoboyvdlp]

@dtlan, that's great. I'll download it...