Librain plugin for the Metroliner III AC Passenger/Freighter

by Paul Blair (toadlife) - toadlife@gmail.com
Version 1.1 - 2022-04-20


Updates in 1.1:

* Rain drop size reduced to a more realistic size
* Cockpit masking completely fixed (Rain was visible through the dash when your view was very low)
* Wipers simulation would not track the wipers all the way down
* librain would somtimes crash X-plane if the plane crashed 
* librain would fail to initialize when a new flight was loaded



Updates from version 1.01 (2022-04-11):

* Updated cockpit masking object to better mask rain when viewpoint is lower in the cockpit. Note that some rain can still appear with extremely low viewpoints.
* Fixed: Airspeed Box thingy on the dashboard was not masked completely
* Added masking objects for Pop-up Menu and Autopilot pop-up (thanks BlackBird_GR)
* Update included plugin to VR-Compatible librain plugin (https://github.com/toadlife/librain/tree/6b8f7b2438a173e3faa787941d9e84ad7e3f6945)


Description:

This package will add rain and windshield wiper effects to Starvingpilot's excellent Metroliner III AC. It utilizes the librain plugin by Saso Kiselkov. Unfortunately, the librain plugin does NOT work with Vulcan.

Compatibility:

This package has been tested with the following versions of the Metroliner III AC:

* Metroliner III AC Passenger/Freighter 1.1
* Metroliner III AC Passenger/Freighter 1.2
* Metroliner III AC Passenger/Freighter 1.1 + Steve's Metro Mod

This package should work with future versions of the Metro, provided major structural changes are not made to the aircraft fuselage.


Installation:

* Passenger version: copy the contents of the "Metro III AC Passenger" folder into the aircraft folder
* Freighter version: copy the contents of the "Metro III AC Freighter" folder into the aircraft folder

Thank you to:

* Starvingpilot for the plane and the permission to reuse his objects
* Lionel for the SASL/librain plugin tutorial (https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/forums/topic/186573-your-first-sasl-plugin-configuring-librain-plugin-for-dr401/)
* s85skater ("Steve") for the permission to reuse his glass objects from Steve's Metro Mod
* BlackBird_GR for the suggestion to mask the AP panel and menu and the masking objects
* Saso Kiselkov for the librain plugin (https://github.com/skiselkov/librain)
* My son Christian for the (multiple) Blender/C lessons





