Engine Smoke No-Show

[beroun]

Hi,
Noted that many AI Military aircraft do not show engine smoke coming from behind the engines. MAIW_HTAI_C-130E Philipines AF is the prime example, but there are more. The reson is wrong entry in aircraft.cfg file - the .fx is left behind the effect in the [LIGHTS] section:

light.10= 2, -10.0, 16.8, 4.0, fx_nicksmokeC130.fx // Engine 1
light.11= 2, -10.0, 33.8, 4.0, fx_nicksmokeC130.fx // Engine 2
light.12= 2, -10.0, -16.8, 4.0, fx_nicksmokeC130.fx // Engine 3
light.13= 2, -10.0, -33.8, 4.0, fx_nicksmokeC130.fx // Engine 4

Remove .fx (shown in red above) and the smoke behind engines will show OK. In general smoke effect in the light section must not have .fx file extension behind it!!!!!!!!
Regards
Peter

[Stewart Pearson]

I'm guessing that not a lot of folks bother about smoke................considering that Barry and I did the Philippines Herks waaaay back in 2007!

Anyhoo, rather than trying to go through all the cfg's which may have this similar error, I have copied and renamed the effect file in the hope that this will solve the problem en masse.

Peter could you report back if the attached file makes any difference please?

[beroun]

Thanks Stewart,
Yes the problem is solved, the smoke shows.
Regards,
Peter

[Stewart Pearson]

Thanks Stewart,
Yes the problem is solved, the smoke shows.
Regards,
Peter

It worked??? Well, I never!

Glad that's sorted Peter, thank you for bringing the error to our attention.