Wingmen sometimes are invisible in the rain
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I’ve run into this issue twice now while doing our flights, where we transition from poor to inclement weather, suddenly the wingmen disappear completely once inside the rain effect. This happened for both myself and the connected pilot the last time, I also vanished for him. I’m surprised nobody has posted it before at least as far as I can tell from searching the board.
Visibility was at least 5-10 miles and the ceiling was above the altitude we were operating at. As soon as the sim transitions to rain, that’s when it occurs. I’ll try and reproduce this again, but has anyone had any issues like we have seen? Is it a known bug?
Doesn’t seem to ever occur on the ground, only while in flight and does not cause any .exe or server crashes. As soon as the flight transitions from inclement to say poor or fair, the other aircraft reappear, obviously with everyone out of position because they couldn’t see each other (not related to visibility or the actual wx :D).
Any suggestions?
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Inclement weather will create “layers” of clouds, but as clouds are currently 2D only, it could be that such an invisible wall is exactly between the both of you. Same effect can be seen when passing through a normal cloud, but especially with an overcast layer: even in close formation, there will be a brief moment where you lose visibility on each other, as one is technically hidden behind the cloud layer.
Is that the effect you’re experiencing?
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Hey Eagle,
Yes it’s definitely the same effect like going through layers, but the poor/inclement in both of these cases was set above the altitude being flown. One at 18,000 and the other at 4000 respectively. The first time was at 15,000 and the second time at 2500 ft both as the flights transitioned to rain. We did not penetrate the weather layer. Once the rain stopped both aircraft reappear.
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Rain falls…wind blows…fire burns…or something to that effect.
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You need to activate WSV in bad weather situations. (Wind Screen Vipers).
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You need to activate WSV in bad weather situations. (Wind Screen Vipers).
Hahaha appreciate the banter and jokes, hope you’re doing good Shadow, long time no see.
This is definitely a bug in that the models become invisible but not a big issue. It’s happening below the ceiling which shouldn’t occur and isn’t just localized to one machine, the other players in the server see the same thing.