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Triggering effect at a fixed distance froma aircraft

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AndreSteyn

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I have been trying to get my explosion effect to only show when the aircraft is within 500m from the spot, but I continue to see the explosion from miles away
To date I have tried creating a trigger box in G-Max, as well as creating a control for the effect, but have not been able to get the desired result
Is there anyone that could possible help me with this?

Thanks
André
 
open the fx file and see what's really going on. it gets messed up during trial and error. Even better post the code so we could see whats happening:cool:
 
wako1
Thanks for the reply.

I think the problem lies with the controller, it doesn't seem to do anything.

In my effect I changed the emitter lifetime from Lifetime=0.10, 0.12 to Lifetime=0.00, 0.00
This way it stays on and I was hoping that it could then be switched on by the controller when the aircraft is at a certain distance from it.

Changing the values back from 0.00 to anything else, results in the effect spawning when FS is switched on and never again.
The same happens if I use any of the default effects and create a controller for it

This is what my controller looks like:
[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5
Version=1.00
Radius=300
Priority=0

[controller.0]
lifetime=0.0, 0.0
type=3
distance=300.00, 300.00
x offset=0.00, 0.00
y offset=0.00, 0.00
z offset=0.00, 0.00
random count=0, 0
effect.0=fx_explosion, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
 
hmmm looks actually correct! one more change you might try is .....

[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5.00,5.00

instead of
[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5

are you using fs9 or fsx?
 
Thanks, will give that a try

I am using both Fs9 and FSX and have set up different effects for each, but thus far no success on the trigger:confused:
 
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