Engine smoke gauge

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UKVoodoo

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Hi All

Maybe a non starter but is there an engine smoke gauge that can create smoke from say 50% throttle up to 95% throttle then from the 95%-100% no somke

I know it sounds like a daft request but I've watched lots of videos of smokey engined aircraft losing the smoke as soon as the Reheat is engaged (Luftwaffe F-4s and Mig-29's for starters) and wondered if it was possible in FS9

Thanks
Matt :salute:
 
My understanding of this sort of thing is that it's necessary to write an xml gauge to aperate the system and then either use the smoke on / off command or assign the effect to a light. That way you can toggle it.

you'd be looking at something a little like (psuedo code):

(Engine 1 RPM, percent) 50 > (Engine 1 RPM, percent) 95 < and; if{toggle smoke on} els{toggle smoke off}

Basically you're saying that when:
rpm > 50% return 1 - (Engine 1 RPM, percent) 50 &gt
rpm < 95% return 1 - (Engine 1 RPM, percent) 95 &lt
when both inputs are 1 return 1 - and
if input is 1 do this - if
otherwise do this - els

sorry if that's not very clear, it's been a while since I've attempted any xml.
 
Somewhere in the Forum there's a discussion of smoke effects for the Alphasim freeware Phantom. As I recall, the effect they used was from an airliner, and it was configurable. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of the file when I reformatted a couple of weeks ago. I've searched for the last fifteen minutes and couldn't find the thread, but surely somebody can point you to it.

Just found it in this post from Markus: http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforu...tom-coming-up!&p=558380&viewfull=1#post558380
 
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