Contrails on VATSIM

[Jakob Ludwig]

Hi John,

 

on some pics I see contrails appearing from other traffic at high altitudes. Does this affect only X-Plane own AI or can those contrails be seen with Online trafffic (CSL) on VATSIM?

[JohnMAXX]

Actually the contrails are static, not dynamic and appear when a cirrus layer is selected....

 

So they will show up regardless as long as a cirrus layer is drawn.......

[Jakob Ludwig]

Actually the contrails are static, not dynamic and appear when a cirrus layer is selected....

 

So they will show up regardless as long as a cirrus layer is drawn.......

 

Ok, so more or less a random fancy feature.

[JohnMAXX]

Yep something I added to bring a bit of life into the sim......I will admit though random dynamic contrails are an appealing concept even if there are not aircraft attached to them

[Jakob Ludwig]

Yep something I added to bring a bit of life into the sim......I will admit though random dynamic contrails are an appealing concept even if there are not aircraft attached to them

 

Thanks for the explanation. However I would like to see X-Plane to render Contrails of online traffic in more better way. I know it does allready, depending on altitude and temperature, humidity and some other factors. But you never see them, because there are to thin, regarding the rendered texture. 

[JohnMAXX]

Interesting,  if I may ask you a favor can you setup X-Plane to do this?  Id like to see this in action

[Jakob Ludwig]

Interesting,  if I may ask you a favor can you setup X-Plane to do this?  Id like to see this in action

 

I don't know the exact conditions. Maybe Ben Supnik knows how to setup everything to have contrails appear. He dropped a few words on this in the dev blog months ago... 

[wotaskd]

Just the ability to more realistically render our own ACF's contrails would be amazing, if feasible. The current implementation in X-Plane makes the modern airliners I fly feel more like a B-52 on takeoff