Holy Smokes!
Take a look at how easy it is to add a smoke system to virtually any aircraft in fsx. Not only is this a truly awesome way to add a touch of kick-ass to your air show routines but it's incredibly simple to do and better yet should work with almost any aircraft you choose.
To get started you need to add a [smoke system] section into the aircraft.cfg, you can find the cfg in the aircrafts main folder, open it using notepad and add the new section to the end.
Below is what you will be adding to the cfg file, it's taken directly from the default 300s.
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-10.00, -0.70, 0.0, fx_smoke_w
-0.70 - this relates to where the smoke will appear on the horizontal axis, 0.0 is the center, any number above or below will move the effect to the left or right of the fuselage.
0.0 - this relates to where the smoke appears on the vertical axis, 0.0 is the center and any number above or below will move the effect up or down.
fx_smoke_w - this is the effect fsx will use, in this case it's the default smoke effect.
You can also add more than one smoke trail by adding a second or third addition to the [smokesystem] section, below for example is what i added to get the effect of two smoke trails from each wing in the picture above.
[smokesystem]
smoke.0=-10.00, 15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
smoke.1=-10.00, -15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
that's it, you can play around with this section and various smoke effects to get some crazy results, pressing the [i] key in the game will turn on and off the smoke system. enjoy!
Take a look at how easy it is to add a smoke system to virtually any aircraft in fsx. Not only is this a truly awesome way to add a touch of kick-ass to your air show routines but it's incredibly simple to do and better yet should work with almost any aircraft you choose.
To get started you need to add a [smoke system] section into the aircraft.cfg, you can find the cfg in the aircrafts main folder, open it using notepad and add the new section to the end.
[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0=-10.00, -0.70, 0.0, fx_smoke_w
There are a few numbers here you can change to customize where the smoke will appear:
-10.00 - this relates to how far back from the aircraft the smoke effect will start to appear.-0.70 - this relates to where the smoke will appear on the horizontal axis, 0.0 is the center, any number above or below will move the effect to the left or right of the fuselage.
0.0 - this relates to where the smoke appears on the vertical axis, 0.0 is the center and any number above or below will move the effect up or down.
fx_smoke_w - this is the effect fsx will use, in this case it's the default smoke effect.
You can also add more than one smoke trail by adding a second or third addition to the [smokesystem] section, below for example is what i added to get the effect of two smoke trails from each wing in the picture above.
[smokesystem]
smoke.0=-10.00, 15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
smoke.1=-10.00, -15, -0.0, fx_smoke_w
that's it, you can play around with this section and various smoke effects to get some crazy results, pressing the [i] key in the game will turn on and off the smoke system. enjoy!
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hi,how can I change the color of the smoke,I want black - yellow and red airshow smoke.
ReplyDeleteThe three color are for three diverend planes,whe fly in a team. With the RealAir SF260 marchetti.
Anyone ??? i want to do the red arrows display
DeleteI would think you can if you are able to if you created more smoke effects and change the fx_smoke_w to the new effect. It is possible that there exists within the FSX effects folder other colors already seeing that there is a w at the end almost to indicate white so you could investigate that first.
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