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FSXA Issue with FX between tool and flight

Gypsy Baron

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I am having problems getting an effect to appear correctly when triggered from the cockpit in flight, however when I use the Special Effects Tool from the Tools menu, the effect displays just fine.

There are four emitters in the file and two of them display OK (0, 3) but emittiers 1 & 2 do not show up except in the fx tool.

The fx file is meant to display a flare being launched (emitter 0) and
than a puff of smoke (emitter 3) followed by a parachute and flare that descends for the next 42 seconds.

For the life of me I can not get the parachute and flare to display outside of the special effects tool environment. There appears to
be some sort of disconnect between the tool and the normal environment.

Attached is the fx file. Any help would be appreciated.

Paul
 

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Is this solved

Were you ever able to solve this. Was it placed in the smokesystem of a cfg file? We are having the same issue. FX Tool fires it correctly and it also is correct when used as a ground impact effect, but doesn't work as a smoke effect. There must be some limitation in each smoke effect displayed.
 
lvflyer said:
Were you ever able to solve this. Was it placed in the smokesystem of a cfg file? We are having the same issue. FX Tool fires it correctly and it also is correct when used as a ground impact effect, but doesn't work as a smoke effect. There must be some limitation in each smoke effect displayed.
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I did get it to work but I can't tell you what I did to make that happen. I did quite a bit of editing of the files in question and eventually got the flare and parachute to work in the simulator. And yes, these are used
via the smokesystem in the aircraft.cfg file.

Sorry I can't give you any further info.

Paul
 
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