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Trigger smoke system

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AI air raft do not respond to K events, so it is not possible to trigger the smoke system using a K event.
Anyone got an idea of ANY other way of doing it?
I am trying to get daytime taxi lights using an effect (FS2004) based on the beacon being on and the strobe off but am unable to toggle the smoke system.

Cheers
 
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Hi
one way is to make a custom effect that has both the light and smoke effect in one effect,then just run it from the [LIGHTS] section
 
Not worried about the smoke.

Just need to use the smoke system effect slot to make daytime taxi lights.
Problem being I need a way to trigger the smoke system effect thus turning on the lights.

AI aircraft will not use K events, so I cant use
(>K:SMOKE_ON)
to turn on the lights.

Just wondered if there may be ANY other way.
 
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Thanks but still no go.

Wondering if there may be a way to directly 'poke' the value?

Remember peek and poke, long time ago lol.
 
AI aircraft do not have a place to poke that value (user aircraft only) so this is probably impossible.
 
Thanks Tom.

So is there any other way?
Tieing the smoke system to another 'bus' in the aircraft.cfg?

Just need a way to trigger it, and would assume its the same in FSX also, in that AI don't respond to K events?

How about sending a virtual keypress through XML?

Clutching at straws lol.
 
If you are making the AI aircraft yourself, and it's for FSX, have you tried embedding the XML script in the compiled model file?
 
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