Ground Effect Dust FX?

[Dornep]

Hello everyone

I'm on the hunt for different effects to go with the Super Sabre I'm working on and thought of a few cool ideas that I'm not sure have been done before.

My idea is to find or make an effect that works like the helicopters dust effect, only on an aircraft doing 850mph... I would like for it to work on both sea and land and only display if the aircraft is traveling at a fairly high speed at low altitude (0-20ft).

I watched a video the other day of a AV-8B Harrier doing a very low pass over some soldiers and leaving a cloud of dust in its wake. I've also seen pictures of aircraft traveling at low altitudes over water and leaving a trail of mist behind them. I think this would be a very cool effect and would like to try it on my F100.

Do any of you guys know if an effect like this already exists or will I have to mod or make one myself?

BTW this is for FS9

[Falcon500]

well my first thought is nick prop dust effects

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004misc14.htm

near the bottom



But i know when i added the effects to my B-29 they didnt work right and stayed on while i was a 22000ft and i was able to "outfly" the effects, they were spaced out REAL far.
But if you are able to edit effects better than me its feasable

[AuMaV]

Hi
Yeah it can be done,the biggest hassle is to get the effect to sit and look right on the ground.If you download my Mustang package p51dver2.zip,
it has a gauge and effect which throws up a dust cloud if the engine is running on a dirt gravel grass ect surface
cheers
Wozza
 

[NickN]

well my first thought is nick prop dust effects

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004misc14.htm

near the bottom



But i know when i added the effects to my B-29 they didnt work right and stayed on while i was a 22000ft and i was able to "outfly" the effects, they were spaced out REAL far.
But if you are able to edit effects better than me its feasable

If that is the case then the gauge was not properly working, either the gauge file was not installed right or the edit to the panel.cfg was incorrect. The gauge shuts the dust off as soon as you are airborne

[Dornep]

Ok well I got an effect to show up. I just modified the default white smoke effect so that it looked like dust instead of smoke.

Only problem is thats its either on or off. I also have a grey smoke effect tied into the afterburner so that the smoke is only on after a certain amount of throttle has been applied. So the dust trail only works while the afterburner is on.

I'm wondering how the default helicopters dust effect works, I'm not sure but I don't think it uses an effect in the [smoke system] does it? If not this would be the way to go if I could apply it to a plane, that way you can have the smoke effects for the exhaust and the dust and sea spray effects for high speed low altitude flight.