FSX smoke effects

[Hawkeye111]

Smoke in my T-6 aircraft will only stay on for as long as I hold the "I" key down. If I just hit the "I" key or press my assigned controller button, I just get a short puff of smoke.

[Xpand]

That means the smoke is being controled by a gauge. it's probably the engine startup effect that's being shown there.

[Hawkeye111]

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

[Groundbound1]

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

Won't be a modeling issue.
The smoke on start-up may not be the one you're looking for. First try to hash out the smoke system entries like so:
[smokesystem]
//smoke.0 = 15, 1.5,

[Gypsy_Baron]

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

You can create an xml gauge that sends the appropriate "SMOKE_ON" "SMOKE_OFF"
commands with the number of the smoke entry +1

For, say, smoke.5=some fx file

[Hawkeye111]

Yep - you are probably right on that one because the engine does puff some smoke when it starts.

Now - is there a way to add smoke controled by the smoke key or is that a modeling issue?

Won't be a modeling issue.
The smoke on start-up may not be the one you're looking for. First try to hash out the smoke system entries like so:
[smokesystem]
//smoke.0 = 15, 1.5,