New Contrail Effects for CFS3 2026-05-30

[gecko]

gecko submitted a new resource:

New Contrail Effects for CFS3 - A new set of contrails to add to your CFS3 aircraft

Included in this download are high-altitude contrail effects suitable for any CFS3 aircraft. It will also automatically override my older contrail effect used on some aircraft if you have it installed.

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[MajorMagee]

What is the intended use case for fx_vapor_trail?

 

[gecko]

That is the name of my old contrail effect. If you install the effect lines at the top of your effects.xml, the old effect will automatically be replaced with the new one.

 

[MajorMagee]

I did a Left Wing - Right Wing comparison of these new contrails (fx_contrail_1, 2, 3, 4) with fx_high_contrail that was included in the Combined Effects Package Combined Effects Mod

Very similar after they fully develop, but these new ones get big and fluffy more quickly (closer to real life experience). The new ones also activate at a slightly lower altitude, than what we previously suggested to be used (20k versus 25k which is actually variable with the time of year anyway)