Cockpit Glass

Mod features

- Dynamic Weather Effects on the glass ( requires "Effects Quality" of game options to be set to "High" or "Maximum" )

- Glass Lighting

- Biome Lighting Correction

Dynamic Weather Effects

Shows rain and ice on the glass depending on weather conditions. Better visible with FXAA antialiasing mode.

In versions 0. 84 - 0. 91 have same appearance. Can not be configured or disabled for these versions.

In versions from 0. 92 weather effects are affected by:

- Time ( increases water or ice amount to maximum value defined by rain/snow intensity )

- Any cover above mech like any objects, buildings or terrain arcs ( prevent from raining and freezing )

- Mech temperature ( causes ice melting )

Some weather effects can be configured for versions from 0. 92 and above.

Check section Gameplay influence of Dynamic Weather Effects below for details.

Glass Lighting

Imitate dynamic glass lighting depending on surrounding. Influenced by obstacles in front of cockpit, and by direct sun light.

Available in version 0. 90 and later.

Can be configured or disabled.

Biome Lighting Correction

Changes biome lighting to allow Glass Lighting system look better. These changes are also trying to increase time of day difference: nights and dawns becomes darker.

Available in version 0. 91 and later.

Required for Glass Lighting system to work. Can be disabled along with it.

Gameplay influence of Dynamic Weather Effects

Target reticle zone is not clear from weather effects by default in versions from 0. 92. It means that you may see droplets and ice covering your target. In bad weather conditions it may lower your accuracy. Or may not, it depends on you. But you can lower rain drips and flows intensity a bit by standing under some cover. It may be building or terrain arcs. Also, you can melt ice by rising a heat of your mech to values more than 50% ( by default ) and keeping high temperature. When it will drop below 50%, it will start to freeze again. Although freezing is not so fast as melting. It will take few minutes to be covered with ice again. When you start your mission outside of dropship ( it means you had a long way to this point under open sky ) you'll start with already frozen glass. So if weather conditions is very bad, maybe you will need to melt ice right at the mission start time.

If you don't like this mechanics, you can set parameter   Transparency_Reticle_Zone   to 100 to keep your reticle zone always clear from weather effects like it was in versions before 0. 92. Also you can tune other parameters like melting speed, freezing time or water and ice amount and weather effects contrast in main settings file. Check Problems resolving part of this description to know more ab