reported earlier Rain inside the hangar

[orl_cz]

I ran a mission today in the rain and it was raining inside the hangar like I was outside (Balad Airbase)

[draconus]

It's a general DCS issue.

[dmatsch]

and it's a very, very old issue.

[silverdevil]

On 12/16/2024 at 4:06 PM, orl_cz said:

I ran a mission today in the rain and it was raining inside the hangar like I was outside (Balad Airbase)

local contractors can be notoriously bad sometimes.

[Ladan]

Same problem here in another airbase with hangars. It rains inside haha. Ah well, I guess it keeps the hangars clean. I hope it gets fixed soon.

[2circle]

While we're on the topic, has anyone heard of whether ED will fix the rain effect on the canopy?  The rain is way too viscous and distorts objects outside the aircraft.  Following hand signals from directors on the boat is just about impossible.  

[schurem]

And on many modules that have wipers, they do nothing..

[Akula]

May 24, 2025 and this bug still hasn't been fixed? I'm also experiencing rain inside hangar on the Kola map.

How much coding is involved in fixing this? WTF ED?

Edited May 26 by Akula

[AndyJWest]

7 minutes ago, Akula said:

How much coding is involved in fixing this?

At a guess, depending on your definition of 'fixing', anything from 'some' to 'much, much more than it would be sensible to do'. At minimum, one could 'simply' turn the rain off entirely when the viewpoint was under cover. That requires the sim to check regularly whether any static object was directly above it: not something the sim normally needs to know, so inevitably adding to CPU usage, even if only marginally.

At the other end of the scale, it would probably be theoretically possible to model the rain-masking effects of static objects much more realistically, by determining whether rain (which may not be moving vertically downward, due to wind) intersects any object, and cutting off the 'drops' graphic accordingly, so hangers etc (within a reasonable distance) would each have their own rain shadow. The resources needed (CPU and GPU) to do this would no doubt affect performance, to the detriment of FPS etc, and it would require a great deal of coding.

If I were ED, I'd maybe look at adding the first option to a 'to do' list somewhere. And then tackle the higher priority stuff first. The second option would go on a 'no, not ever, never' list.

I once commented, in relation to another sim, that "failure to model the entire universe is not a bug". The same applies here. DCS is an air combat simulator, and the number of things it neither models nor actually needs to in order to function effectively as one is uncountable. Sure, it would be nice if it didn't rain in hangers, but it's hardly game-breaking. And it certainly wouldn't belong anywhere near the top of most DCS users bugs-needing-fixing list, I suspect, if it should even be considered a bug at all.

 

 

[draconus]

Yes, not a bug technically but the very noticable issue, espacially when we already have rain on canopy simulated, wipers and wet carrier deck.