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Smoke and effects

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Sorry for double post. I didn't know how to move the post.

I just discovered something that I need confirmation on. Is there a limitation on the number of particles or which effects can be triggered by the smoke system in the aircraft.cfg file?

What we are trying to accomplish is an explosion on a ship upon impact of a missile. The ship is a boat with aircraft.cfg instead of sim.cfg so we tried to use the smoke system to trigger an explosion and long term fire and smoke effect. All we get is an explosion, but no fire and smoke column. While testing we added the effect to the powered glider and triggered it with the smoke system and only got the explosion, but no fire and smoke, but when triggering the effect in the FX Tool we do see the full effect with fire and smoke. We also see the full effect when triggered in a bomb that has a sim.cfg. So their must be some limitations in the smoke system.

If that is the case then the question is can we trigger the effect in the effects section by adding it to the touchdown trigger. Is touchdown the same trigger as impact in sim.cfg or can we add the impact trigger in the effects section of the aircraft.cfg and also the water impact for when the missiles or bullets hit the water?
 
Attached is the effect in question. The texture files required are fx_1.bmp, fx_2.bmp, fx_3.bmp, Gen02.wav, and fx_fireadd.bmp

When displayed in FX Tool it shows the complete effect. When added to an aircraft.cfg in the SmokeSystem or Lights it will only display part of it. Can anyone tell me why?
 

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