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Separation plane for Effects?

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Hi guys, I did a bunch of searches as well as read the SDKs and posted at Avsim, still no luck..... so hoping one of the gurus here can help:

Is there any way to create a "separation plane" (ala GMAX) using regular FS9 effects? I need a strobe that cannot be seen from below, but want to use regular FS9 effects in order to take advantage of a controller effect.

thanks in advance :)

Ryan
 
I have not yet tried it (nor will I in the forseable future as I would have to get a lot of other things working in my tool first), but it might be possible to create an animation for the attachpoint. The animation should have two steps - one where you want to see the effect, and one something like 500 (or whatever) under the ground.

In the interpolation code section of the RIFF, insert code that writes 0 or 1 to a user variable depending on the condition (in this case the plane) and change the interpolation calculation code to use this variable (it is most likely possible to use it directly as it is a frame number with limited or no interpolation, frankly I simply can't rememer - and I can't be bothered to check now as it is not really relevant for the feasability of this approach). :)
 
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