Icing effects aircraft

[Revi]

Not sure if this is the correct place to post this topic, however i feel like it is related to the weather. 

 

Simply said, a icing effect on the cockpit and/or aircraft would be amazing!

From my limited knowledge, at least, the cockpit icing effects would not be to hard to pull of, i am simply conjecturing here, but a "simple" .dds texture file with a bit of coding that adjusts the opacity could do the job, obviously it is much more complex, but that is the basics of it. 

Have a icing texture with 0 opacity, mask it, whenever the temperature falls, turn the opacity up until it becomes more and more visible.

 

There are most likely more efficient ways in doing this, but the point is, i assume it is not *that* hard to implement.

 

It would add alot to the immersion! Giving the "anti icing" functions a job as well!

Besides that, external icing could roughly be done in the same way, i assume.

 

Please correct me if i am wrong, i never implemented anything like this myself, simply brainstorming atm.

 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2021 by Revi

[Tom_]

+1

[Harker]

+1. The JF-17 already has this implemented, among with the anti-ice system. It'd be nice to have it on all modules.

[Germane]

+1

[Jenson]

+1

[AKarhu]

Just remember that airframe icing is not about cold temperatures alone but also atmospheric moisture being present in a liquid form. For realistic icing, the model should read the local weather as well.

[QuiGon]

This is one of the features I miss the most in DCS (besides proper IFF and some other things)!

Edited September 3, 2021 by QuiGon

[diveplane]

i herd one of the upcoming modules has this feature coming out.