SHOW SMOKE

hey all

does anybody know how to change the colour of the fsx show smoke?

thanks

chez64

I know how to make it look red, not sure if any other color work though.

Find the Extra 300 aircraft.cfg and search for the following lines "[SMOKE SYSTEM]" in that section you should see a part that says "fx_smoke_w" change the w to an r and save it. Start up flight sim and it should be red. You could try different letters to see if there are any other colors. But red is the only one i know of right now. To make it white again just put back the w where you put the r.

Flyboy92

thanks flyboy i ll experiment with different ones

right its red now,
lets see how many people i can fool with this trick

red and white smoke

Pulling hard for a trail on the wings, fuel dump, (Ctrl + Shift + D) and red smoke.

na, big bird strike

smart ar*e

and it should be bird STRIKES

i'd like it if you could do a "dump 'n' burn"

What ever effect you list in the smoke section of the aircraft.cfg file is what you'll see. You just have to try putting different ones in and see what they look like.

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-53.00, 0, -0.0, fx_smoke_w

-53 is the distance fx_smoke_w is the effect
away from the plane
this section can be put in the aircraft.cfg file of any plane. You might have to adjust the distance part so the smoke is coming out close to the end of the plane.

You could even have the contrail of the ufo in one of the acceleration missions come out of the back of the plane. Just try to find it in your effects folder.

is -53 the same for all aircraft?

no, that is how far forward or behind the effect will show. In this case, it is 53 ft behind the middle of the plane. Adjust that number to move the effect forward or backwords.

ahh its getting there

ave it!!!

red and green smoke on the appropriate wing tip and blue out the rear

yay im happy now

Last edited by chez64 on Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:22 pm, edited 1 time in total

you been looking at my website?

why bird STRIKES?

the ammount of red!

if anybody wants the effect files and the aircraft.cfg file for the f18 with the different colours ill email them you pm me your address

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-53.00, 0, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
-53.00 is back and forth.
0, is left and right
-0.0, is up and down.


My highly modified F-16 has wing smoke, see here.

[smokesystem]
smoke.0=-10.00, 15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
smoke.1=-10.00, -15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w

Can you like pass on the coding to me? ive been looking for a way to do this...

thanks

yeah if i can find it mate, i just reinstalled fs, think its deleted it, ill get back to ya

Mk thanks

it shouldnt matter actually...i uninstalled mine to put it on my brothers PC cause his is way faster...and then put it back on mine...all my added aircraft etc. was still on their

nah sorry it deleted it, i would like it too so im re creating it as i type, ill post it asap

THIS IS FOR THE STANDARD ACCELERATION F18

replace the * with the letter of the smoke colour eg r = red - default fsx are w & R but i have made green and blue too,

sweet! thanks!!!!


one question...ho do you get the green and blue? cause when i try it, it just makes my smoke not work all together.

it works on the primary colours principle. each number is the % of each primary colour

what letters do I put in for geen and blue?