What happened to the airshow smoke?!

[Brother_Leb]

Can you be any more specific about what is not working? Does it just look exactly the same?

I agree with @gulredrel it works for me as well. I have a backup copy of the vanilla smokeTrail.lua so that I can swap back if I have to pass IC for MP servers.

To get the better airshow smoke, I copy and paste the Frecce Tricolori version (well, actually my own tweaked version of their version) to the core directory and let it overwrite the existing one. That has consistently worked for me and my airshow partner (most recent flight was Tuesday evening, US). In fact, I've swapped between the two versions multiple times during a session and had no problems. I know it works because most MP servers I fly require IC and during airshows I can see my partner's full loop with smoke on.

My file path: DCS_World_OpenBeta\Config\Effects\ParticleSystem2\smokeTrail.lua

Now ED just pushed an update TODAY (12/16) so I have no idea if maybe that changed something, but as of Tuesday (12/13) this all worked for me.

One note, the change is client side, so someone else will see the standard lame smoke until they edit their own .lua.

Edited December 16, 2022 by Brother_Leb

[popov]

13 hours ago, gulredrel said:

Worked for me in single player.

I copied and renamed the original file in my game folder:

E:\games\DCS_World_OpenBeta\Config\Effects\ParticleSystem2\smokeTrail.lua --> E:\games\DCS_World_OpenBeta\Config\Effects\ParticleSystem2\smokeTrail.lua_org

I than edited the original file smokeTrail.lua within the folder with notepad++, which also has the option to compare both file versions, so you don't accidently change other values.

Thanks gulredrel, I rechecked my file placement and now its working greath !

Before and after... it works now !   thanks to the community...
 

[Fanter]

After today's update DCS 2.8.1.34437 Open Beta the core problem is yet to be solved, even after this moderate size update. 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Fanter

[ChariotOfFLAME]

As of today, both builds of DCS Open beta/Stable 2.8.1.34667.2 still have not resolved the issue with the airshow smoke, even in the Stable build.

modifying/breaking Integrity Check is still required to get smoke representative of how it was in 2.7.

Something akin to what is needed to fix this was implemented in less than 12 hours by a community member. Any chance we can get this fixed for the next build?

Edited January 4, 2023 by ChariotOfFLAME

[Fanter]

On 1/4/2023 at 7:06 PM, ChariotOfFLAME said:

As of today, both builds of DCS Open beta/Stable 2.8.1.34667.2 still have not resolved the issue with the airshow smoke, even in the Stable build.

modifying/breaking Integrity Check is still required to get smoke representative of how it was in 2.7.

Something akin to what is needed to fix this was implemented in less than 12 hours by a community member. Any chance we can get this fixed for the next build?

 

One Two can hope i guess…

[YSIAD_RIP]

Looks like airshow smoke is working better now after the latest Open Beta 2.8.2.35632.  I did not notice anything directly mentioning the fix in the Changelog.

 

Edited January 26, 2023 by YSIAD_RIP
typo fixed.

[ChariotOfFLAME]

3 hours ago, YSIAD_RIP said:

Looks like airshow smoke is working better now after the latest Open Beta 2.8.2.35632.  I did not notice anything directly mentioned the fix in the Changelog.

 

I concur: the smoke is much improved! Thank you, ED!!!!

For all those looking to have longer hangtimes for the smoke, the mod above still works, but it breaks IC, so keep that in mind. ED cannot implement that long for smoke for various reasons, but Open Beta 2.8.2.35632 features a significant improvement!

[Wayan]

Yeah, i would assert it is even better then before, it looks less clumsy. finally :):):)