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Hi gang Can anyone either run through the procedure to add effects (afterburner, smoke etc..), or direct me to a tutorial. I have tried seemingly every copy paste configuration imaginable, I still can't see the desired effect. Your help would be greatly appreciated

Hi Clipper...without knowing what exactly you are trying to achieve and what you are doing to get the effects it is a bit difficult..usually the readme files are reliable but just one thing...in Settings/Display, have you got the special effects slider turned up to max?..commoner

Commoner, yes it's turned up to the max. Here's my latest frustration...I downloaded an sst . The model, panel, sound, gauges loaded fine and in the instructions it states just copy the afterburner and smoke files into the main fs9 effects folder. I tried... 1) copy and pasted the cfg afterburner file into the unopened fs9 effects file.(closed fs9 effects envelope), nothing, 2) I pasted the afterburner cfg file into the open fs9 effects file (opened envelope)..nothing, 3) I pasted the afterburner cfg. file directly onto the area that shows all the other fs9 effects (in the fs9 effects folder)..nothing. 4)  I copy and pasted the unopened sst effects folder into the fs9 effects folder ( I tried both the opened fs9 folder and closed fs9 effects folder)..nothing. What more can i tell you to clarify? let me know...Thanks

clipper - which SST? Let me know and I'll have a look.  Effects (.fx) files usually go in the main effects folder, and they are called from the appropriate aircraft.cfg file.

2) I pasted the afterburner cfg file into the open fs9 effects file (opened envelope)..nothing, 3) I pasted the afterburner cfg. file directly onto the area that shows all the other fs9 effects (in the fs9 effects folder)..nothing

Clipper. I haven't tried this particular aircraft so could be quite wrong. It's not usual for CFG files to be in the FS9\Effects folder. I just checked mine & it does not contain a single CFG file athough I must admit to not having installed too many effect files. I'm assuming this afterburner cfg is a sample Aircraft.cfg entry that should be copy/pasted into Aircraft.cfg of aircraft using these effects. Make sure you read the included installation instructions carefully.

Clipper ..as I said..the readme files are there to help you install the files correctly, and Hagar is right (as usual  ;))  it's more likely to be the CONTENTS of the file you need to paste, not the .cfg file itself..commoner

Thank you guys for the help. Here is the sst version I downloaded. I'll try it again and let you know.

It might be easier if you posted a link to the page so we can check it out.

OK. I found it. Here's what it says in the instructions.

<<<<<  Installation  >>>>>
Simply unzip all the files right into FS2004 Aircraft folder.
Then copy paste fx_sst2010afterburner.fx and fx_sst2010smoke.fx
into FS2004\effects folder. From select aircraft menu, these 4
models show up under "A-ST SST2010 North America" at the top
column of the menu. A-ST for A Shigeru Tanaka production

I strongly suggest you ignore the first part & unzip the file to a Temp folder before manually pasting the sst2010northamerica folder into the FS9\Aircraft folder. The second part should be quite straighforward. Find the 2 FX files named fx_sst2010afterburner.fx and fx_sst2010smoke.fx & move them into the FS9\Effects folder.
I haven't installed the aircraft to check it out but it should now work as advertised. I assume the smoke effects function when the afterburners are selected. You might need to assign a key to this command from FS9.Settings/Assignments

I searched the complete downloaded file & can't find a file named afterburner.cfg. The effects should already be defined in Aircraft,cfg.

Thanks for your efforts Hagar and everyone else. I'll try again now and post you guys on the results (hopefully in the freeware screenshot forum).  :)