Simviation Forum - FSX smoke effects

Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:05am

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Smoke in my T-6 aircraft will only stay on for as long as I hold the "I" key down. If I just hit the "I" key or press my assigned controller button, I just get a short puff of smoke. Here is the Smoke System portion of the aircraft.cfg file.

[smokesystem]
smoke.0 = 15, 1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke
smoke.1 = 15, -1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke

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Reply #1 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:31am

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That means the smoke is being controled by a gauge. it's probably the engine startup effect that's being shown there.

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Reply #2 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:51am

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Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

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Reply #3 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 10:47am

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Hawkeye111 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:51am:

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

Won't be a modeling issue.
The smoke on start-up may not be the one you're looking for. First try to hash out the smoke system entries like so:
[smokesystem]
//smoke.0 = 15, 1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke
//smoke.1 = 15, -1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke

That will show whether or not the "fx_t6_smoke' is responsible for the start-up smoke.

If not, (I suspect it isn't) then you'll likely need to be looking for an XML gauge that controls the smoke effect. (Probably one that activates at a certain rpm) IF this is the case, you can edit the XML gauge to eliminate the automatic smoke control, thus giving you manual control ( Do this VERY CAREFULLY! XML knowledge is a good idea before attempting this, and ONLY AFTER you make a backup first, in case things go wrong)

Tracking down the gauge responsible in the panel config can be tricky but sometimes there is a label or description. Once you think you've found it, you can hash that gauge out the same way as you did with the smoke system entries. Because many (if not most) XML gauges control more than one thing, you may lose ofther functionality too, but this is only temporary until you find the gauge you're looking for.

Also, if and or when you find said gauge and hash it out, try your smoke button again, and it should work manually.

Hope this helped.

BTW, is this a freeware model I might download. If it is, I could probably do some of the "tricky" work for ya.

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Reply #4 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 8:42pm

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Hawkeye111 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:51am:

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

You can create an xml gauge that sends the appropriate "SMOKE_ON" "SMOKE_OFF"
commands with the number of the smoke entry +1

For, say, smoke.5=some fx file (can be ANY effect file, not just smoke)

6 (>K:SMOKE_ON) or 6 (>K:SMOKE_OFF)

You can also assign the triggering event to a key:

Here's an example that I created and use:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Gauge Name="B17G Flare Control" Version="1.0">

  <Keys>
    <On Key="74">
     6 (&gt;K:SMOKE_OFF)
     6 (&gt;K:SMOKE_ON)
    
    <!-- Key 56 is 8 on the main keyboard Triggers RED Flare -->
    </On>
  </Keys>

  <Keys>
    <On Key="75">
      7 (&gt;K:SMOKE_OFF)
      7 (&gt;K:SMOKE_ON)
    <!-- Key 57 is 9 on the main keyboard Triggers GREEN Flare -->
    </On>
  </Keys>
</Gauge>

My aircraft.cfg file Smokesystem entries have these two lines:

smoke.5 = 150.0,10.0, 0.0, fx_FLARE_RED.fx
smoke.6 = 150.0,10.0, 0.0, fx_FLARE_GREEN.fx

OR, if you have a registered version of FSUIPC4 you can assign SMOKE_ON, SMOKE_OFF
key events with the appropriate parameter, to any of your controllers or keyboard keys.

Many option. And you can have up to 100 "smoke.xxx=" statements although in a recent
test I could only get 32 working.

Paul

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Reply #5 - Nov 11^th, 2011 at 7:00pm

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Groundbound1 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2011 at 10:47am:

Hawkeye111 wrote on Nov 10^th, 2011 at 7:51am:

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

Won't be a modeling issue.
The smoke on start-up may not be the one you're looking for. First try to hash out the smoke system entries like so:
[smokesystem]
//smoke.0 = 15, 1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke
//smoke.1 = 15, -1.5, 0, fx_t6_smoke

That will show whether or not the "fx_t6_smoke' is responsible for the start-up smoke.

If not, (I suspect it isn't) then you'll likely need to be looking for an XML gauge that controls the smoke effect. (Probably one that activates at a certain rpm) IF this is the case, you can edit the XML gauge to eliminate the automatic smoke control, thus giving you manual control ( Do this VERY CAREFULLY! XML knowledge is a good idea before attempting this, and ONLY AFTER you make a backup first, in case things go wrong)

Tracking down the gauge responsible in the panel config can be tricky but sometimes there is a label or description. Once you think you've found it, you can hash that gauge out the same way as you did with the smoke system entries. Because many (if not most) XML gauges control more than one thing, you may lose ofther functionality too, but this is only temporary until you find the gauge you're looking for.

Also, if and or when you find said gauge and hash it out, try your smoke button again, and it should work manually.

Hope this helped.

BTW, is this a freeware model I might download. If it is, I could probably do some of the "tricky" work for ya.

Yep - its a payware airplane

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