dust on takeoff and landing

[wolfi]

So then it would be fantastic to have one effect for dust clouds on the mediterranean/afrikan zone and other for the more humid terrains such as UK, north of France, Germany, etc.. MED andAFR installs get one effect and ETO gets the other. Light planes like fighters could always have it, and heavy planes like bombers (I´m thinking in B17 and B24) wouldn´t need it as they used paved runways and tarmacs.

It´s all a compromise and it would be a permanent summer effect for fighters/fighter bombers in the ETO. If the ETO texture is light grey it would fit well even with winter textures.

Well the problem with the built in effect is, it's built in! That are polygons added as (blurred) wheels to the aircraft. So the effect appears only when the wheels are rotating through starting or landing. The effect can't be added to older aircraft or only through the owner of the source file.

wolfi

 

[wolfi]

Wolfi,

This is very interesting train of thought.

My suggestion for a dust bmp would be to recolour one of the hi rez cloud bmps (with plenty of alpha channel) & see how that looks.

so if any who knows to make it better than me, please make one or two dust clouds as 256x256 bitmap

here is the converted fx_1 texture, I converted it and made the alpha channel (the upper half) visible

 

[Fibber]

RAMI

Thank you for correcting that upload. I don't know how it went under my name. I was just a squirreler making someones elses lost hard work available. :salute:

 

[bobhegf]

Fellows why not make it a trigerd Effect. Or you could could add it as an effect to the aircraft and have it trigger at a set speed and have it only last a second or two.

 

[Discus]

Not a bad idea!