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Hi,I am currently putting smoke down in various places (red and green) for tactical landing zones and using Whisplacer to do so.The smoke effect (fx_Smoke_Small.fx) is around 8ft tall but is verticle. If i increase the wind for that weather region, the smoke does waft to the side somewhat but not much.I was wondering if there was a way of having an effect of when you come in to land near the smoke in a helicopter, the downwash blows the smoke?Is there a way to interact the smoke.fx with the downwash effect of when you come into land....?Many thanks

Tried to edit my post but wouldn't let me.I see the file i should be using is fx_rtr_lnd.fx I will try with this and report back

I downloaded a new dust effect for my helicopters on FSX...In essence, it replaces the default with a huge dust cloud to simulate the "brownout" when landing on sand.But, as it replaces the default effect, this happens when you land on grass too which obviously isn't very realistic. Several Questions:-Is it possible to code this so you can have it as Smoke instead. When you press "I", the brownout effect comes on when you land on sand. And when you land on grass, you can use the default effect?I just tried doing it for [smoke system] and nothing appeared when i pressed "I". And when i nulled out the "dirt=fx-tchdrt" in the [Effects] section of the aircraft.cfg with "//", it didn't null it out in the Sim. When i went to take off, the dust cloud appeared again. Even after resetting the aircraft and so on. I have several fx files in my EFFECTS folder. fx_dustcloud_sfx_dustcloud_mfx_dustcloud_l andfx_tchdrt On my helicopter aircraft.cfg files, they have under the [Effects] section, fx_tchdrt and not the dustcloud effect. Sorry if i have confused anyone!

Hi PeterYes, set it to unlimited and 30fps in the external limiter.I have it working better now if i set the limiter to 15fps and 15fps in FSX, it stables out somewhat, it's atleast flyable now.Odd how its done this all of a sudden.

Thanks for the quick reply.I downloaded FPS_Limiter_0.2 and set it up via the GUI for 30fps and ran the batch file to open up FSX.Once in and testing, it did not do the trick unfortunately. It says in bright green text on the start screen that it is limited now to 30fps.... but the FPS is still jumping around even with the Limiter running just as much as it did before.I had a flight just now and it was almost impossible to fly using outside views. It did not do this a few weeks ago when i last played it, so unsure why its doing it now

Hi,Lately i have been unable to fly or enjoy FSX due to a problem i have been experiencing with my frame rate shooting up and down like theres no tomorrow. It creates massive judders when in spot/tower/flyby view but its fine in cockpit view.Even on playback of a recording its juddering like mad.I noticed that when it does this, the frame rate is jumping from my normal 30fps down to sometimes 4 or 8fps then back up to normal again all within seconds. Its constantly doing this now but never did it before.I've tried limiting the frame rate lower (even down to 10fps) but it is still occuring, it then goes from 10 down to 3 or 4 then back up to 10 and so on....Any help would be appreciated, i've tried what a forum post suggested online by editing the fsx.cfg to stop this but it hasn't worked.

Yesterday i was able to fly a Harrier with the VTOL gauge working, hovering just fine. Today i started FSX up and i can no longer hover. Infact FSUIPC does not work any longer. I do not have it showing in my FSX bar either under addons.It's like it has just decided to mess itself it up with no reason.I shut down FSX like i usually do, shut down the computer and this happens out of the blue.FSUIPC will not connect to "SimConnect" as it tells me SimConnect is not installed properly.I keep getting this error:Found SimConnect build 61259 (Acc/SP2 Oct07), but this is not correctly installed!... Probe Manifest fails to match a valid SimConnect needed to use FSUIPC4!I have gone through various forums to resolve this and every solution has failed. I have tried re-installing FSX SP2 without resolving the problem. I have tried numerous times to uninstall and reinstall SimConnect using the SDK SimConnect.msi installer as per the FSUIPC owner has suggested.With some solutions such as reinstalling SP2 it has resolved some peoples error but not mine.I'm at a complete loss now on what to do. I've tried other solutions on renaming certain folders in the winsxs folder and manifests and nothing is working.It's a complete downer when most addons require FSUIPC and its no longer able to connect to SimConnect.Other solutuons say reinstalled Windows. Yeah right, i'm not re-installing windows just so i can play FSX.I seriously have no idea how a computer can mess up something when shutting down. I've never had this problem before?One thing i did notice when looking through the winsxs folder after i found i had no SimConnect working was that none of the SimConnect folders were actually present. So it was like they were just "deleted" when i shut down last night and this morning, nothing there.Reinstalling SimConnect.msi via the SDK doesn't work at all.I have also tried three different versions of FSUIPC including the 4.60 version.I might just give up on FSX altogether and MS Flight Sim for that matter.

I've just had this problem occur and i cannot solve it, i have been trying for just over 5 hours now.Yesterday i was able to fly a Harrier with the VTOL gauge working, hovering just fine. Today i started FSX up and i can no longer hover. Infact FSUIPC does not work any longer. I do not have it showing in my FSX bar either under addons.It's like it has just decided to mess itself it up with no reason.I shut down FSX like i usually do, shut the computer and this happens out of the blue.FSUIPC will not connect to "SimConnect" as it tells me SimConnect is not installed properly.I keep getting this error:Found SimConnect build 61259 (Acc/SP2 Oct07), but this is not correctly installed!... Probe Manifest fails to match a valid SimConnect needed to use FSUIPC4!I have gone through various forums to resolve this and every solution has failed. I have tried re-installing FSX SP2 without resolving the problem. I have tried numerous times to uninstall and reinstall SimConnect using the SDK SimConnect.msi installer as per the FSUIPC owner has suggested.With some solutions such as reinstalling SP2 it has resolved some peoples error but not mine.I'm at a complete loss now on what to do. I've tried other solutions on renaming certain folders in the winsxs folder and manifests and nothing is working.It's a complete downer when most addons require FSUIPC and its no longer able to connect to SimConnect.Other solutuons say reinstalled Windows. Yeah right, i'm not re-installing windows just so i can play FSX.I seriously have no idea how a computer can mess up something when shutting down. I've never had this problem before?One thing i did notice when looking through the winsxs folder after i found i had no SimConnect working was that none of the SimConnect folders were actually present. So it was like they were just "deleted" when i shut down last night and this morning, nothing there.Reinstalling SimConnect.msi via the SDK doesn't work at all.I have also tried three different versions of FSUIPC including the 4.60 version.I might just give up on FSX altogether and MS Flight Sim for that matter.

I knew it was simple and i had gone brain dead. I just did what you said and it works on Horizon scenery. Many thanks for your help, i really appreciate it.

Good stuff, i can report back to say that i am able to get the BGL working fine on FSX default scenery but that's no use. As i am using Horizon Gen-X 2.0 scenery for the part i wish to place my objects.Whenever i try to use BGLs i have created in either Whisplacer or Object Placer they do not work with the Horizon scenery.I tested this as i made a test scenery BGL for default scenery and it worked fine. How do i get BGL files to work with Horizon scenery?

You're right of course, i was just being totally thick in the head!!. I edited the file to activate OPT and it works, now all i have to do is get my head round it. As when i save the mission as a file and replay it in FSX, no scenery is showing. But then i'm having that problem with Whisplacer too.I'll give the document you suggested a good read now, sorry for wasting time on the original subject. But i'm sure i'll be back on here in a minute :(

HiI have FSX Deluxe and SDK. However i do not have the Object Placement Tool sub-folder in the SDK Mission Creation folder. For some reason this is missing and thus no OPT at all.I installed SDK SP1A which uninstalled SDK and then installed SP1A. I then installed SDK SP2 (I have FSX Deluxe SP2) and this uninstalled SP1A and installed it to SP2.I thought this might have resolved the problem but again i see no OPT sub folder anywhere and so nothing shows in FSX tools.Does anyone know why the folder could be missing or am i missing something in not looking in the right place?I have the following folders in my SDK folder:-Core Utilities Folder--sub folders of SimConnectSimPropEnvironment Kit Folder--sub folders of Autogen SDKBGL Compiler SDKModelling SDKSpecial Effects SDKTerrain SDKTraffic Toolbox SDKMission Creation Kit--sub folders ofMission Samplesand files:dllobject placement.dllSimObject Creation Kit--sub folders ofCabDir SDKPanels and Gauges SDKSo, i have the object placement.dll and a file named dll on its own but no folder with it? Any help would be appreciated.