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Hi,

I am a bit confused by the attached effects and especially about their orientation. I have made three boxes, each with a smokestack attached.

If I just place a box, the smoke is going up (so along the local Z axis of the box).

But when I rotate the box either 90 degrees along the X or Y axis, I notice that in FS the smoke is going along the -Z axis after the rotation. And not the Z-axis as you would expect.

Anybody noticed this before?
 
Oh, and here is my GMax file in case that helps.
 

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Hi Arno,

I had this trouble some... years ago
I remind the attached point only fixes a refpoint for the effect, regardless of z axis. So orientations are to be included into the effect itself.
 
Hi,

I have made an test effect yesterday. It emmits three different colours, along the three primary axes. Has been very useful to see better what is going on.

I think there is a small issue when you roll the attachpoint 90 degrees, it seems the effect can behave weirdly. For other angels the orientation was more as I expected.

Only when pitching the attachpoint the effect is rotated differently then I expected. But I am going to do a little more testing on that.
 
Hi Arno,

I downloaded your GMAX exemple and merged a part of it: box with attached effect _16 and even this item doesn't export. :cool:

Greetz. José.

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Added a box to the file and the GMAX-file exports without error message.
In FSX the whole attachTest-file looks fine !
 
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