Title is the question, is there any way to turn them off, cause on every landing, no matter how smooth the landing was, the smoke effects on the NGX are really huge! any way to turn them off completly?

Hello Sebastian, The smoke effect is a real world occurrence as it is the wheel rubber friction on the tarmac. If you were at an airport and close to the TDZ you would see this at first hand. richard welsh.

The smoke is generated by an effect in the 'effects' folder I believe. If you find the right one you can just rename it with a 'sav' extension.

 

Cheers

jja

Hi Sebastion.

I understand the problem you have, it is very unrealistic. I was recording some time ago, and I realized how terrible it looked.

Reference

 

I sought to resolve this problem.

I can ;

1) Remove the effect completely

2) Replace the effect with a better looking one.

 

I didn't want to do number 1, because the smoke occurs in real life, and I think removing it destroys some of the realism embedded in FSX. However, number 1 is easier to do, comparatively.

 

The effect name is 'fx_tchdwn.fx'. Removing that, removes touchdown smoke

I found a neat replacement, and though it was designed for FS2004, it works well in FSX, you can find it be doing a search for 'bluer_tire_smoke.zi' in the AVSIM library.

In my effects folder, there are two other .fx files with similar names. I am not sure however what they do, so I wouldn't mess around with them

Hi Sebastion.

I understand the problem you have, it is very unrealistic. I was recording some time ago, and I realized how terrible it looked.

Reference

 

I sought to resolve this problem.

I can ;

1) Remove the effect completely

2) Replace the effect with a better looking one.

 

I didn't want to do number 1, because the smoke occurs in real life, and I think removing it destroys some of the realism embedded in FSX. However, number 1 is easier to do, comparatively.

 

The effect name is 'fx_tchdwn.fx'. Removing that, removes touchdown smoke

I found a neat replacement, and though it was designed for FS2004, it works well in FSX, you can find it be doing a search for 'bluer_tire_smoke.zi' in the AVSIM library.

In my effects folder, there are two other .fx files with similar names. I am not sure however what they do, so I wouldn't mess around with them

 

 

thank you very much! gonna check that asap!