Adding Afterburners

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

Is there a way to add after burners to the planes in FSX? I have the XB-70, Tu-160, SR-71, and Su-27/33, and none of them make any after burner animation. Only plane that does it is the official F-18 add on.

[idahosurge]

From Simviation FSX Military you can download the F-16 (single engine) or the F-14 (twin engine).  Look through the whole FSX Military section and make sure that you get the latest aircraft and update, there are numberous updates for both.

Once you have downloaded the aircraft I would install the one that you picked and install per the instuctions that came with the aircraft.  Start FSX and make sure that the afterburners work on you new aircraft.

Once you see that they work go into the aircraft.cfg file of your new aircraft and look under the [LIGHTS] section.  You are looking for something like:

light.0= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn1
light.1= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn2 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn2
light.2= 6, -23.0,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burnerflame ,    // Eng2 Afterburner Flame
light.3= 6, -20.0,  0.0,  0.53, fx_F14_Blueflame ,      // Eng1 Blueflame, when engine runs

Note that I have changed mine around and the above will not look exactly like what you have and/or need.  You then will paste the afterburner effects from the F-16/F-14 aircraft.cfg file into the aircraft.cfg file that you want to add it to.  Note that light.x= needs to be in sequence so if you add the effects at the front then you will need to renumber everything behind, if you add the effects at the last then you may need to renumber.  You probably will have to play around with this to get it to work.  You can download both the F-16 and F-14, compare each aircraft.cfg file and you will be able to see the difference in single and twin engine effects.

Note that "light.3= 6, -20.0,  0.0,  0.53, fx_F14_Blueflame" is setup for my F-16 you will have to play with "light.3= 6, XX.X,  X.X,  X.XX, fx_F14_Blueflame" to get the afterburner effect(s) centered for your engine(s).

Note that on my F-16 the afterburner is tied into the strobe light switch so if your afterburner does not work make sure that this switch is on.  It maybe the same with the F-14, but since I hardly fly the F-14 I have not noticed.

Note that if you already have the F-18A from Acceleration you should be able to do the same thing that I have described above using the F-16 or F-14 and I think that the F-18A has the better effects.

Note that once you change your cfg files that this is for your personal use only and you should not distribute to anyone since you have modified someone's cfg file.

Hopefully I will not get any flack for telling you how to do it.

Regards,

Rod

[Boikat]

Thanks!

[Boikat]

Looking at the original post, I'm wondering about th XB-70, since it has six engines, if you would then just keep adding lines for all the engines, so you'd have something like:


light.0= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn1
light.1= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn2 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn2
light.2= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn3
light.3= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn4
light.4= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn5
light.5= 6, -19.7,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burn1 ,          // Eng2 Afterburner Burn6
light.6= 6, -23.0,  0.0, -0.23, fx_F14_Burnerflame ,    // Eng2 Afterburner Flame
light.7= 6, -20.0,  0.0,  0.53, fx_F14_Blueflame ,      // Eng1 Blueflame, when engine runs

..or something like that?

[Boikat]

Update:  Yes, it works in FSX, too.  Earlier I was working with the FS9 SR-71.  It also worked for the X-24.  I'm still experimenting with the XB-70...

Thanks again for the original solution!

[OVERLORD_CHRIS]

Cool thanks guys I'll look for that file....since you said it worked wih the F-14 or F-16, then the same should still work for the F-18 since it is all ready there right? I'll down load them do I do need those planes any ways.