after burner effects

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acepilot32 Captain

hi im trying to get some after burner effects for my f-16 but i cant find any so i was wondering is it possible to take a f/a 18`s after burner effects from abacus`s wonderul flight deck4 so can anyone help me?

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

Not sure if that will work ace... cause the F-18 has two engines... the Viper (F-16) has only one. But maybe if you try like a plane that has a separate texture or effect file for the engines that may work. I will experiment with it... with my tomcat and my F-16 and see if i can make it work.

Otherwise... do a search... i bet AVSIM has something you can add on to a 16 to make it flame on!

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acepilot32 Captain

nah i checked avsim and simviation but non have after burner effects

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acepilot32 Captain

lol sorry i just found it turns out that afterburner doesnt have any spaces and i found the exact afterburner effects for my f-16 now i just have to install it

by the way does afterburners in fs2004 help the aircrafts performance

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acepilot32 Captain

okay this file is to complicated can someone help me.....okay ill give the file name and can someone download it so u can teach me how to install

ab_f16_.zip download it from avsim

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acepilot32 Captain

bump (if i am spammin please notify me and i will stop)

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

Ace when I get home from work today I will help you out with that. I need to add an AB to my falcon too. Unless someone beats me to it.

P.S.- No it does not help performance. it is simply eye candy. makes it look more realistic.

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acepilot32 Captain

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

suuuure rub it in even more that you do not have to work lol lol. wait till you get to be my age lol.

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

OK buddy first things first here... do you have THIS F-16, by Kirk Olssen.

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/2623/fsx-lockheed-martin-f-16-fighting-falcon/

The afterburner package you downloaded works with that one only apparently.

You will also need to get THIS panel for his F-16, since most of his gauges work with it.

It is near the bottom of that page, F-16 panel by Eric Marciano

I will tell you right now installing that panel is a beast... but it is pretty straightforward. I suggest extract everything IN your VIPER aircraft folder so it is all in one folder.

Assuming you have the panel and the plane already set up... now the afterburner. It's pretty easy.

First-

Open the AB folder
Put the entire folder "KO_F16_FX" into the FS9\gauges folder (do not copy the items inside just take the whole dang folder and plop it into your gauges folder as is.

Next.... in that AB folder look for the new effects folder...
Open the "New_effects" folder and copy the eight files into the FS9\effects folder

After that...
Open the "New_texture" folder and copy the two files into the FS9\effects\texture folder

That was the easy part... now comes the part you got to pay attention to.

I am gonna copy paste directly from the instructions... they work for me.

Using Notepad, edit Kirk's F-16 panel.cfg file as below:

1.Add at the end of the gauge list in "[Window00]":

//------------AB 2D Panel Lamp----------------------------
gauge50=KO_F16_FX!F16_AB_PANEL, 445,362,38,17
//--------------------------------------------------------

2.Add at the end of the gauge list in "[Vcockpit09]":

//------------AB 3D Panel Lamp ---------------------------
gauge04=KO_F16_FX!F16_AB_PANEL, 454,98,58,24
//--------------------------------------------------------

3.Add at the end of the gauge list in "[Vcockpit11]":

//-------AB/logo light Control via Throttle---------------
gauge05=KO_F16_FX!F16_AB_THROGGLE, 0,0,1,1
//--------------------------------------------------------

(Be sure to "slash" out any other afterburner gauges, as they may conflict.. You will see about three other ones in this section just at // to the front of where it says gaugexx=whatever)

*****Using notepad, edit Kirk's F-16 aircraft.cfg file as below*****:

1.Add at the end of the [effects] section:

contrail=fx_F16ko_Contrail //adds contrail when temp is -30c
//startup=fx_F16ko_JetStartHeat3 //smoke puff at startup, w/3 minutes of "heat"
startup=fx_F16ko_JetStartHeat6 //smoke puff at startup, w/6 minutes of "heat"
//startup=fx_F16ko_JetStartHeat9 //smoke puff at startup, w/9 minutes of "heat"

(Just un-"slash" the version you want to use... What this means is you can either have heat shimmer with 3 minutes worth of shimmer, or 6 or 9. the default is 6, so if you look at startup=fx_F16ko_JetStartHeat6, you will notice that is the ONLY one of the three that does not have // in front of it. If you wanna use 9 minutes of heat, then add // in front of the 6 minute then erase the // in front of the 9 minute one.)

2.Replace the [lights] section with the lines below:

[LIGHTS]//retains all Kirk's original lights(except AB), list re-numbered, effects added...
//#1=beacon #2=strobe #3=nav
//#4=cockpit #5=landing #6=taxi
//#7=recog #8=wing #9=logo
//index,type, long, lat, vert, fx_filename
//---------------------------------------------
light.0= 3, 12.2, 2.48, -1.4, fx_knavgre
light.1= 3, 12.2, -2.48, -1.4, fx_knavred
light.2= 3, -5.9, 16.70, 0.7, fx_knavgre
light.3= 3, -5.9, -16.70, 0.7, fx_knavred
light.4= 1, -19.1, 0.00, 3.3, fx_kbeaconwhite
light.5= 1, -20.2, 0.00, 12.0, fx_kvbeacon
light.6= 4, 15.6, 0.00, 3.5, fx_kvclight
light.7= 3, 12.2, 2.48, -1.4, fx_kbeacongreen
light.8= 3, 12.2, -2.48, -1.4, fx_kbeaconred
light.9= 5, 15.0, 1.90, -7.9, fx_kLVIPER
light.10=5, 25.0, 1.90, -5.9, fx_kLVIPER
light.11=2, -12.6, 3.40, 1.1, fx_knavwhi
light.12=2, -12.6, -3.40, 1.1, fx_knavwhi
light.13=2, -14.6, -0.60, 3.1, fx_kLVIPER
light.14=2, -14.6, 5.60, 3.1, fx_kLVIPER
//----------afterburner effects------------------------
light.15=9, -19.70, 0.00, 0.0, fx_F16ko_BURN_ONE
light.16=9, -19.70, 0.00, 0.0, fx_F16ko_BURN_TWO
light.17=9, -22.30, 0.00, 0.0, fx_F16ko_TORCH_FLAME
light.18=9, -18.00, 0.00, 0.0, fx_F16ko_GLITTER
//-----------------------------------------------------

It may look a lil complicated, but it is pretty straightforward. The only had part is editing the cfg file. if you have problems with it i can copy paste or email the entire file as it should read, so that way you don't gotta mess with it.

Good luck. I did mine it works like a DREAM!!!! You are gonna love it!

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acepilot32 Captain

i dont really get where to put all of the cfg. coding wait i think im getting it

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acepilot32 Captain

i cant seem to find [vcockpit09] in the new panel cfg.

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VegasFlyer Chief Captain

acepilot32 wrote:

i cant seem to find [vcockpit09] in the new panel cfg.

panel.cfg is in the panel folder.

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

like vf said... look there. it is there.

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acepilot32 Captain

no i meant that when i looked in the new panel cfg. for the new panel i couldnt find [vcockpit09]

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acepilot32 Captain

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

Sweet man now take pix let's see your falcon!

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acepilot32 Captain

ill post them in a day or two because my bro is on the computer that has fs2k4 and has the Geforce 7900 graphics card and the computer im on now is my other bros computer which i was told i cant install fs2k4 anyways ill put up some screenshots of it

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

Can't wait to see them!

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acepilot32 Captain

i dont know where to upload them im using rapidshot i just dont know where to put my pics

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

you can get a photobucket account for free. I use angelfire but i pay for it cause I have lots of pix and a website that uses it. Make sure your pix are sized at 800 pixels wide by 600 pixels tall. That is considered the standard.

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acepilot32 Captain

hope you like them😀



Last edited by acepilot32 on Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:13 am, edited 1 time in total
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sorry about the AI traffic i put the slider down to 45% to have good fps

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acepilot32 Captain

well

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Drew B (belgeode) Chief Captain

Now THAT is a thing of beauty! Two thumbs up on that one man!

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acepilot32 Captain

thanks Group Wave 🙂)

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