Jet Exhaust Idea

[reg2]

I was just thinking, it would be great if someone could mod fs2004 to add exhaust to jets. Special effects like this can be seen in half life 2 as the propane gas.

[ChuckMajik]

They already exist, all you have to do is search the main download sites.
Before I stopped playing FS, I had several downloaded and in use.

[reg2]

im not talking about smoke exhaust but just plain exhaust that warps the image in the background like a jet will do. if they have these mods can you send me a link or tell me what its called?

[ChuckMajik]

Ah, that sort of heat blur thing: guess I misunderstood.
Sadly this sort of thing would be impossible to make for the M$FS series.

[juri]

how about a rotating "glass" cylinder which is nearly transparent and has a distorted surface? it could be named as an engine part that keeps turning on jets (don't know what it is and i'm too lazy to open the sdk)...

-juri

[reg2]

that might work but its looks better the other way. they even have it for the helicopters in joint operations escalation.  its would look so great in back of a blue angels f18

[Ridge_Runner_5]

Well the fact that different games have it doesnt mean it's possible in this one..

I remember that back in FS2000 there was a fictional Boeing 575 (yes i got the numbers right ) and what it did was it had a transparent cylinder on the back of the engines with black lines on them, and it spun around slowly, and really accomplished the effect nicely...

[reg2]

i know its not necessarily possible in this one but it should be. its flight simulator

[allosaurus1]

I have found something that does have this effect for your aircraft and the AI. Check this download out to see if you like it FS2004 and FS2002 FX: Nick's A-I JET Exhaust with Cointrol Gauge. Hanging around the airport watching the A-I traffic and chasing A-I jet aircraft just got a little more interesting. Enjoy watching your entire A-I jet fleet as they display engine heat shimmer effects -after- push-back from the terminal and during taxi to the active runway. ftp://63.217.28.218/1misc/NicksAIjetExhaust.zip

[d0mokun]

mhmh, some interesting ideas there. I think the way cfs3 did it was to have many different white and black particles buzzing around, creates a sort of distortion effect- but games that have it, like lomac, have it built into the engine. While it could've been done with fs9, i dont think the right code has been written in. but then i'm not a coder for fs9. but, its a selling point- graphics are everything. so, if it were possible to have lomac style effects im sure the option would bet here.

downloading 'nicks effects' now to take a look, cheers
regards
dano