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Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 18:42
by paul26may
The smoke effects in the HJG aircraft appears less realistic than that in Dave Maltby's British jets. Is it possible to employ these in the HJG 707's DC8's etc?
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 18:59
by TSR2
Hi Paul,
Yep its very easy, just change the name of the effect in the aircraft.cfg from what ever it is currently to the one you want and save the file. then restart the sim. (I'm assuming your on FS9?)
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 20:07
by paul26may
Thanks for that Ben. But can I use the VC10 file for a 707 or will I have to do some jiggerypokery?
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 20:09
by TSR2
The file just refferences the effect, so you just tell the cfg file which effect to use, no jiggery pokkery necessary ;-)
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 20:36
by paul26may
Done! I did have to change some numbers though. However I have cracked it I think. Thanks again, Ben.
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 20:41
by TSR2
You should only have had to change the numbers if your using FSX as far as i know :think:
Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 21:17
by tonymadge
Hi Paul
The HJG smoke effects are a bit heavy on purpose to simulate the early water injected jets etc, but glad your sorted now

Re: Smoke
Posted: 20 Dec 2008, 22:26
by airboatr
Hi tony
I just wanted to tell you I tried the last line of your signature line "take a hammer to it"
tried that once on a PC, Walked up to it and held out the Hammer and said
"your gonna get it now"!!!!
you know what? the DVD drive door opened up and schwallowed it right up .....SLAM!
...... damn trojen b@$^&D!!
clawing with fingers :@
Re: Smoke
Posted: 21 Dec 2008, 12:05
by paul26may
Hello Tony and Ben,
The reason I found that I had to change the numbers was because as I was using the VC10 smoke, when applied to the DC8 the smoke was coming out the tail!
Anyhow, is there any way I can make the smoke a bit thicker?
Re: Smoke
Posted: 21 Dec 2008, 13:35
by Roger
Hmmm in the SMOKE header the refrence points for long lat vert will already be there. All you have to do is substitute the fx name and leave the reference points alone...unless I've missed something here?