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German Air Force Eurofighter Package by MAIW

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German Air Force Eurofighter Package by MAIW

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please use this thread to ask questions and to post constructive feedback about this package here

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As I recently discovered the F-4 that possibly came with this package I wondered how I can make the smoke a little more realistic. It seems to be a little too bright and too light. I remember those birds throwing lot of dark dust out of their engines. Does anybody have different settings for the effect that come closer to the thing I want it?

Thanks in advance!
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I am away form my PC so I can't tell, but what smoke effect did we use?
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Post by btaylo24 »

This one

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Need to chat about this steve....As its relative to something else

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Thanks for taking care of this!
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OK, Jan. I do remember a discussion around this when the package was being developed but I will see what Barry wants to talk about before I go any further.
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Don't want to be impatient :wink: but are there any news on this?
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Post by Firebird »

Hi Sprocky, I still haven't had a chance to chat to Barry about this, however I shall tell you what I seem to recall about the original package smoke decision.

The package was for the current Luftwaffe strength which is for the F-4F ICE upgraded planes. These had the upgraded smokeless engines. Now they were smokeless only compared to the original J79s and not in real terms, so they had smoke but not as visible as the smoke stacks that we knew for the aircraft when they were delivered.

Now the conversation we want to have is whether we want to darken and thicken the smoke, leave it as it is or whether we provide both. Hopefully this explains the current situation.
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F4 SMOKE

Post by f4nutter »

HI SPROKY
TRY PUTTING THESE COMMAND LINES IN YOUR AIRCRAFT CFG FILE

[SMOKESYSTEM]
smoke.0 = 0, 0, -2, fx_l_smoke
smoke.1 = 0, 0, 2.6, fx_r_smoke

PUT 2 // IN FRONT OF ORIGINAL LINES SO YOU CAN REVERSE AFFECTS IF YOU DONT LIKE IT.
ITS FROM THE IRIS MIG 29, I USE THESE SMOKE AFFECTS ON MY F4'S.
HOPE THIS WILL HELP YOU.
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Post by sprocky »

It did not help. Possibly coz I don't have the fx files you use.

Anyway I managed to get my F4 smoking. Simply had alook in my fx folder and found a proper file. :D
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Post by nickblack423 »

Jan

There is a super smoke effect by a guy named Russell Blagg, designed for the CaptainSim F104 which creates a lovely short trail of smoke behind the jets...you can find it at AVSIM below

http://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=54248

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Nick,

thanks for posting the link. The result:

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Unfortunatly still not satisfied. Should be a mixture of the two effects. Does anyone know of a good tutorial for creating smoke effects?
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