Afterburner help....???

[cloud9]

Wasn't sure where to post this but, I was playin around and put afterburners on Moachs 737









However, I don't know how to get the AB to only start when I'm full throttle.



As you can see in the last pic, it is controlled by the light.

How would I make the AB's only come on only at full throttle??

[Travis]

That would require a gauge to be added to the panel that would control the smoke system, which is where you will need to put the afterburner effect.

I don't know enough about afterburner stuff to go into further detail, though.

[Katahu]

Are you trying to speed up your airline trips?

[CAFedm]

To make a working afterburner (e.g., comes on when a certain percentage of throttle is applied), as mentioned above you need a special gauge file. I know that Rob Barendregt (do a search on his files) has made some excellent such gauges, among other things, and believe there may be a freeware one for general use somewhere. If you just want the A/B effects to display on/off, you can simply assign a lighting element in the aircraft.cfg. Here's an example:

//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe,3=navigation, 4=cockpit, 5=landing
light.0 = 3, -7.75, -22.90, 1.60, fx_navred ,
light.1 = 3, -7.75,  22.90, 1.60, fx_navgre ,
light.2 = 1, -8.85, -22.55, 1.60, fx_strobe ,
light.3 = 1, -8.85,  22.55, 1.60, fx_strobe ,
light.4 = 1, 0.25, 0.00, 2.30, fx_beaconb ,
light.5 = 1, 7.60,  0.00,  6.49, fx_beaconb ,
light.6 = 1, -16.55,  -9.85,  9.93, fx_beacon ,
light.7 = 3, -16.55,  9.70,  9.93, fx_navwhi ,
light.8 = 3, 25.00,  0.00,  6.50, fx_vclight ,
light.10= 2, -17.3, -8.48,  0.10, AFTERBURNER_EFFECT_NAME_HERE
light.11= 2, -17.3,  8.48,  0.10, AFTERBURNER_EFFECT_NAME_HERE

Note:  To engage the effect using the latter method, use the "o" key. This does affect all the strobes however, you need to turn all lights on first then deselect whichever ones aren't required in order to have the strobes work independently of the afterburner (hope this makes sense).

[cloud9]

Yah I know about how to edit the config.

Thank you all. All I needed was to know it was a guage. Thank you

[Greg Ebnit EApilot]

Nice shots. Must be those passengers are in a hurry. I think if you do a combo of what the guys are saying and get an XML Toggle afterburner gauge you can run up to full throttle and then light the wick. WHOOOSHH!! SKY CLIMBIN. Also I think you could probably make a simple toggle by using an after burner gauge as reference and write your own code. And then make an on/ off bitmap. Put the XML gauge file and BMPs in a seperate folder named afterburner or what ever with two file folders named 640 and 1024 where you would put copies of each on/off BMP. The panel would have t reference the folder like this.

[Window00]
gaugeXX=Folder name!Gauge Name,  00,00,00,00


 

[Bpilot0]

it looks cool now i want to download it