horus-DCS Posted March 18 Posted March 18 (edited) On 3/6/2025 at 1:49 PM, JohnRedcorn said: It is not a bug that the devs can fix. The wipers in this game has never worked. They always were a cosmetic thing. The devs need to implement a new feature to make the wipers do their job. But it looks like its a super low priority feature. Because it wasn't implemented for ~15 years already. The older modules - BS, Huey and Hip don't have(actually have never had) working wipers, on the other hand, the newer ones - Hind, Apache and Chinook do. BS is the oldest of DCS family but its 3D cockpit was remastered recently, so I can't see any reason of not having working wipers basically. Edited March 18 by horus-DCS 1
Mr_sukebe Posted March 18 Posted March 18 The older ones have just worn out the wiper blades. Maybe some of the new Bosch aero type will help? 2 7800x3d, 5080, 64GB, PCIE5 SSD - Oculus Pro - Moza (AB9), Virpil (Alpha, CM3, CM1 and CM2), WW (TOP and CP), TM (MFDs, Pendular Rudder), Tek Creations (F18 panel), Total Controls (Apache MFD), Jetseat
MAXsenna Posted March 19 Posted March 19 On 3/18/2025 at 6:35 PM, horus-DCS said: The older modules - BS, Huey and Hip don't have(actually have never had) working wipers, on the other hand, the newer ones - Hind, Apache and Chinook do. BS is the oldest of DCS family but its 3D cockpit was remastered recently, so I can't see any reason of not having working wipers basically. Fixed in today's update, when it drops. 1
Stratos Posted March 21 Posted March 21 Just tried it, far better! 2 I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai!
JohnRedcorn Posted March 22 Posted March 22 Just flied the Ka-50 Black shark 3 today. And the new rain effect with a new wiper effect looks good. But I think that the old rain drops effect was much more realistic when you gain speed. Because back then when I were flying fast I were stop seeing the raindrops on the cockpit's glass because the water were just spreading over the cockpit's glass. Now it is no matter how fast I fly I still see the rain drops. Which looks unrealistic to me. I can't say for sure how the raindrops behaves in the real world on the helicopter's cockpit glass. It would be nice if some real helicopter pilots should check it. Anyway, I have noticed a bug. When I press the wiper's switch to the "Return wiper to a neutral position" mode, the cocpit's glass becomes clear of the raindrops, but it shouldn't. Only when the wiper is working it should remain clear. Even if the wiper is in the neutral position already and I hold the switch in the "Return wiper to the neutral position", the glass is remain clear as long as I hold the switch in this position. When I release it, the glass becomes rainy right away. 2
Czar66 Posted March 22 Posted March 22 17 minutes ago, JohnRedcorn said: Just flied the Ka-50 Black shark 3 today. And the new rain effect with a new wiper effect looks good. But I think that the old rain drops effect was much more realistic when you gain speed. Because back then when I were flying fast I were stop seeing the raindrops on the cockpit's glass because the water were just spreading over the cockpit's glass. Now it is no matter how fast I fly I still see the rain drops. Which looks unrealistic to me. I can't say for sure how the raindrops behaves in the real world on the helicopter's cockpit glass. I haven't flown the Ka-50 BS3 yet in rain on the new patch. I know it is curved instead of flat glass, but this video maybe can help to build up a picture. It should indeed spread: 1
JohnRedcorn Posted March 22 Posted March 22 1 hour ago, Czar66 said: I haven't flown the Ka-50 BS3 yet in rain on the new patch. I know it is curved instead of flat glass, but this video maybe can help to build up a picture. It should indeed spread: Looks nice. Well when flying Ka-50 Black shark 3 in game, it doesn't looks like this exactly. The rain drops are much bigger especially on the side windows. But Ka-50 doesn't have such a curvey glass like the helicopter in this video. So maybe its all right? I don't know. I think that Mi-28 or AH-64 video flying in rain can bring a picture which is much closer to Ka-50 because their cockpit glass have very similar straight angle shapes. With the old rain drops effect, when I was flying fast, the raindrops were completely dissapear from the glass because they were completely spreaded. But now I see from this video that it is also was wrong. Small rain drops should still on the cockpit glass. Anyway it is not something which is very important, just nice to have. It is nice to have the wiper working now. So thanks to devs for implementation of the wiper functionality. 2
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