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FSX SE Smoke effect not possible to activate?

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Hello,

On my system I cannot activate the Smoke effect using the "I" key.

I have controlled the settings and the "I" key is selected

Win 8.1 FSX SE

 

Can you? If yes how?

Thanks in advance.

Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44

What aircraft are you using? It works fine for me on the P51 but it is not programed to work on all aircraft

Matthew Kane

I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me 

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Hello,

I tried the Extra. I will try the P51.

Thanks

Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44

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Hi,

No joy... no smoke on P51...

Must be my system win 8.1

I's search

Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44

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Hi, 

Does some one know why this .fx does not work ...with FSX SE on Win 8.1

 

[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5
Version=1.00
 
[Emitter.0]
Lifetime=0.00, 0.00
Delay=0.00, 0.00
Bounce=0.00
Rate=44.00, 66.00
X Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Drag=0.00, 0.00
X Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
X Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Y Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Z Rotation=0.00, 0.00
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
 
[Particle.0]
Lifetime=8.00, 12.50
Type=19
X Scale=0.60, 1.00
Y Scale=0.60, 1.00
Z Scale=0.00, 0.00
X Scale Rate=0.50, 1.00
Y Scale Rate=0.50, 1.00
Z Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Drag=-4.00, -3.98
Color Rate=0.33, 0.45
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
Fade In=0.00, 0.00
Fade Out=0.55, 0.57
Rotation=-280.00, 280.00
Shade=1
Face=1, 1, 1
 
[ParticleAttributes.0]
Blend Mode=1
Texture=fx_1.bmp
Bounce=0.00
Color Start=75, 75, 75, 10
Color End=75, 75, 75, 0
Jitter Distance=1.05
Jitter Time=10.00
TempK=108.00
TempRate=0.02
uv1=0.50, 0.75
uv2=0.75, 1.00
X Scale Goal=1.20
Y Scale Goal=1.20
Z Scale Goal=0.00
Extrude Length=15.00
Extrude Pitch Max=25.00
Extrude Heading Max=25.00

Edited by n4gix
Placed script in [code] box

Emile EBBR Z590 Aorus Elite, i9-11900K 3.5Ghz Nvidia RTX 5070, 32 GB Mem, SSD 3 Tera , 3 monitors Win11 Pro X64 LM P3D V6.1 Little Nav Map Hifisim Nvidia 591.44

I have noticed this as well. In the Steam edition I've found that there aren't any touchdown effects, the contrails look flat and lifeless, some addon aircraft don't have afterburner effects, and aerobatic aircraft don't have smoke.

 

Quite interesting, not a huge bother, but still one I'd like to fix nontheless.

hi, have u tried default 747, can check whether got NAV/Strove/wing light, mine don't have,

 

Thanks,

Muhamad Aliff
 

Just found out that when you LOWER the level of special effects to e.g. medium you can see the effects again. Setting HIGH level of special effects give me zero effects. Seems to be a bug but for me it solved the effects issue for now. Not sure this works for all effects but just give it a try ;-)
 

I reduced my setting to medium. Navigational lights seem to work, Water effects look good. Chimney smoke looks like bubbles :-(

Steve Canham

MSFS 2024, FSHud, FSLTL, GSX Pro, Active Sky FS, Cabby (cabin announcements), Simbrief, Navigraph, WWACARS, PMDG

CPU-Ryzen9 7800X, RAM-2x32GB DDR5, GPU-RTX4070Ti. Samsung 2TB SSD, Samsung 49" Odyssey Curved Screen
 

 

I reduced my setting to medium. Navigational lights seem to work, Water effects look good. Chimney smoke looks like bubbles :-(

thats probably the price for medium setting?

William

thats probably the price for medium setting?

No special effects with high setting.  With Low & medium setting effects look about the same, as I describe above.  

Steve Canham

MSFS 2024, FSHud, FSLTL, GSX Pro, Active Sky FS, Cabby (cabin announcements), Simbrief, Navigraph, WWACARS, PMDG

CPU-Ryzen9 7800X, RAM-2x32GB DDR5, GPU-RTX4070Ti. Samsung 2TB SSD, Samsung 49" Odyssey Curved Screen
 

 

Just found out that when you LOWER the level of special effects to e.g. medium you can see the effects again. Setting HIGH level of special effects give me zero effects. Seems to be a bug but for me it solved the effects issue for now. Not sure this works for all effects but just give it a try ;-)

 

It works, all my effects are back after moving the slider to medium. Many thanks!

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