C-130 smoke effect question

[Joseph29]

After installing the new USCG Clearwater pack I was looking though the C-130 cfg files for my C-130's and noticed that some do not have any entries for the engine smoke, and the ones that do have the entries have a different effect files named.

fx_nicksmokeAI_sm_lear (I have this one for the E model)
fx_nicksmokeAI_lrglear-MD-7x (I have this one for the H model)
fx_nicksmokeC130.fx (I have the one for the E model)

(my other C-130's do not have smoke effect entries yet)

Is there a single smoke fx file that is best to use for the C-130?

[clickclickdoh]

There is really no best choice. It's what ever looks best for you. When I add the smoke effect to C-130s I'm working on, I use the same effect that is used for the JAI P-3s, fx_nicksmokeAI_lrglear-MD-7X. Chances are that if you have any MAIW package with a P-3 in it, you already have it on your system so you don't need to reinstall it... and P-3 and C-130 use different versions of the same engine IRL.

[Joseph29]

Thank you very much. I used the fx_nicksmokeAI_lrglear-MD-7x for all my C-130's.

One more question. Do you (or anyone) know the entries to add the engine smoke to the L-100-20 and the L-100-30 models? I found the entries to all the C-130's except for those two.

[Jon]

This is what I have.

L-100-30
light.13 = 2, -5.30, -33.83, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.14 = 2, -5.30, -16.86, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.15 = 2, -5.30, 16.86, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.16 = 2, -5.30, 33.83, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727

L-100-20
light.13 = 2, -5.30, -33.83, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.14 = 2, -5.30, -16.86, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.15 = 2, -5.30, 16.86, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727
light.16 = 2, -5.30, 33.83, 4.00, fx_nicksmokeMD-727

[Joseph29]

Thank you very much.

[Jon]

Thank you very much.

Your welcome. Credit goes to AIG from the smoke and lights heading on their front page.