steam

[neilb]

I am trying with difficulty to understand the Special Effects SDK. I am creating A simple Drax Power Station as it's a great landmark when flying in Yorkshire. I found a great fx file ForestSteamLarge so i thought I would use this. However it fades out ofter 2 1/2 minutes, so I read the special effects sdk and subsequently altered the Emitter lifetime to 0.00 , 0.00 hoping this would do the trick but it hasn't altered it. Does anyone know where I am going wrong? Cheers. Neil

 

[EssieP]

I am keen to know the answer to this also, I have a Power station near Birmingham that needs a plume of steam in the winter. The ones I have tried have been too small.

We could really do with a gallery of standard effects like there is for objects.

 

[ronh]

I think what you would like is a controller file where you make your steam effect keep repeating.

Look at Cntrl_SmokeStack.fx in FSX/efects directory.

It uses 6 effects repeats randomly. Lifetime = 0.00 <==infinite

[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5
Version=1.00
Radius=10000
Priority=0

[controller.0]
lifetime=0.0, 0.0 
type=1 
delay=1200.00, 1500.00 
x offset=0.00, 0.00  
y offset=0.00, 0.00  
z offset=0.00, 0.00
random count=1, 1
effect.0=fx_SmokeStack, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00
effect.1=fx_dummy, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00
effect.2=fx_SmokeStack2, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00
effect.3=fx_dummy, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00
effect.4=fx_dummy, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00
effect.5=fx_dummy, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 300.00

 

[neilb]

Thanks Ron that was really helpful. I have now created steam at Drax and Ferybridge Power Stations. I will upload files to Flightsim.com after I have checked they work on anothr computer. Thanks again. Neil