[dennisat]

Csantucci, on 29 March 2014 - 10:09 AM, said:

But I understand you are saying there are raindrops WITHIN wagons when in view 5. This is a harder task to cope with, and I don't think if I'm able to.

I thought it would be more of a problem and if I had any knowledge of graphics programming I would try myself. Thanks for looking into the possibilities.

Dennis

[James Ross]

dennisat, on 29 March 2014 - 01:14 AM, said:

Well, I've tried it and it seems to operate very like MSTS. Now, is there such a simple solution for the inside view (key 5)? MSTS seems to exclude the precipitation except when viewed through windows, like the cabview works in OR.

I think MSTS "cheats" by drawing the rain first and then drawing the car interior on top of it. That's harder to pull off in OR unfortunately, though we could manage it...

[dennisat]

James Ross, on 29 March 2014 - 02:39 PM, said:

I think MSTS "cheats" by drawing the rain first and then drawing the car interior on top of it. That's harder to pull off in OR unfortunately, though we could manage it...

Thank you for considering it. At the moment, OR seems to render most scenes better than MSTS. For instance, I have some models that when viewed in MSTS through, say, a platform canopy, have parts missing. In OR they display correctly. If you can achieve this sort of result with precipitation it would be very nice.

Dennis

[captain_bazza]

The rain, it's plain, falls mainly on the train! :)

Cheers Rhymer.

[Csantucci]

Unfortunately it falls also IN the train... :)

[Csantucci]

Trial #3: I implemented James' suggestion, and here's the result:
 RunActivity.zip (518.22K)
Number of downloads: 354
It's better than before, it's OK when the passenger view has all walls or when you're looking at a direction where the walls are drawn in the passenger view. Sometimes the passenger views miss some wall, so, if you're looking into a direction where an interior wall is missing, you see rain (I don't know if the same happens with MSTS); this is stressed by the fact that OR does not limit viewing rotations in passenger view, differently from MSTS.
But I think this is the best that can be done without important reworkings.

[Buttercup]

I seem to recall that some snow sheds in MSTS "leaked" rain and snow because the didn't have a bounding box defined in the sd file for the shape.

[Genma Saotome]

Camera inside a bounding box = no visible precipitation sounds reasonable.

[dennisat]

Csantucci, on 30 March 2014 - 05:39 AM, said:

Trial #3: I implemented James' suggestion, and here's the result:
RunActivity.zip
It's better than before, it's OK when the passenger view has all walls or when you're looking at a direction where the walls are drawn in the passenger view. Sometimes the passenger views miss some wall, so, if you're looking into a direction where an interior wall is missing, you see rain (I don't know if the same happens with MSTS); this is stressed by the fact that OR does not limit viewing rotations in passenger view, differently from MSTS.
But I think this is the best that can be done without important reworkings.

Would it be possible to make the source patch available? My setup has several of my own mods and I find it easier to apply / remove source patches (and perhaps tinker with them).

Dennis

[Csantucci]

Yes of course, GNU rules!
Here's the patch
 Norain.cs.patch.zip (1.73K)
Number of downloads: 360
but pls. provide a feedback on your findings.