Hi Jimski,

Nanni made a landing light (A firey barrel) that you could place where you need it. I don't know how bright it is as I've never used it, but you can give it a go. Nanni's CFS Page


Good Hunting,
Brandon

glad to be of service.

I increased the time by dumb luck. I had never looked at an fx file before. Opened it with notepad and it is just a text file. All I knew about it was that it was fire lasting about four minutes. Towards the end of the file I saw three groupings under the names fire1, fire2 and fire3. Each had a "lifetime" of about 240 which I took to mean 240 seconds or 4 minutes. I changed 240 to 1240. In my test I could see the fire from 10 miles from 10000 feet and it lasted for as long as I hung around (I was getting shot at). In general I'd say it about as bright as a house fire. No where near as bright as an industrial fire. I suppose a perfect effect might start with the house fire and it grows many times brighter for an hour or so and then goes down. I have no idea how to simulate that.

Jimski

Have you checked Blades version 2 upgrade in the Sim-Outhouse web.  They claimed that some structures will burn for over one hour.

Down doad it and open it up with your noted and see how they where able to accomplish that.

Maybe that will you a idea on how to do that.

James007

Spent more time with the phosphorous fire. If you call up fx_phbomb in notepad you can make the fire last as long as you want by changing the "lifetime" of each "emitter" in the "fire" paragraphs. If you change the "xscale" and "yscale" of the "particle" in each fire you can make the fire as large as you want, right up to h bomb size. But it looks cheezy in the larger sizes because of the flicker that is designed into it. I may try to deal with that next free time.

Since it is designed to be used as a "vehicle" in mission builder you can start a ground fire at any time in any place, even make it move as with any vehicle. This in addition to modifying a bomb to be a phosphorous bomb.

It is a bit tediuous to tinker with because it looks to me that in order to see the effect of any change you make in fx-phbomb you must stop/restart your computer and restart csf2, etc.

Jimski

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I think some of the really big firestorms could be seen by following waves of aircraft 150 miles away and more.

I should imagine there's another parameter in the fx file for visible range. Or maybe you've already maxed it out.

I don't doubt it. I've never really fiddle with effects so I don't really know. You could send an email to Nanni, or one of those other chaps who make all those effects. Email addresses should be in readme's and such.