Vessel smoke stacks (Funnels)

[Oban]

So as per my post in the Type 42 destroyer, the new update has the MT smoke stacks/funnels working again ... however, they don't seem to be abel to be controlled,

before you could control their volume here in these lines ( size)

GT.exhaust = {
    [1] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.7 , 17.2, 2.1 } },
    [2] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.75 , 17.2, -2.1 } },
    }

Editing this to almost zero makes no difference, has any of the masters such as @currenthillor @Admiral189 figured this one out ?

[currenthill]

Interesting coincidence. I was just working on this. And so far I’ve only come to the same conclusion as you. Only the positioning can be changed as of now. 

[Oban]

4 minutes ago, currenthill said:

Interesting coincidence. I was just working on this. And so far I’ve only come to the same conclusion as you. Only the positioning can be changed as of now. 

Yeah, intersting indeed, and also the colour has went from black to white

[crazyeddie]

If you remove these lines completely does the smoke still work ?

If the answer is yes then parhaps its being enabled from a different place or bit of code now !

 

GT.exhaust = {
    [1] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.7 , 17.2, 2.1 } },
    [2] = { size = 0.05 , pos = {-10.75 , 17.2, -2.1 } },
    }

[joey45]

They are using the smoke for ships as the smoke for statics on maps that's why we can't change the thickness.

 

We have to wait until they make the new smoke tech for boats.

Edited July 16, 2024 by joey45

[Ironghost]

In the wish list of what we could ask about the game in the future, I asked a few months ago if we could increase the density of the smoke of the missiles fired from the VLS cells and in general from the ships and from all the units in DCS. The developers replied that they had put my request on the list, let's hope my wish will be granted in the next updates.
As for the smoke from the chimneys, I don't care much.

Regarding the smoke from ship chimneys, I noticed that even if the density is increased in the options, the smoke does not come out the same.

[Oban]

46 minutes ago, Ironghost said:

In the wish list of what we could ask about the game in the future, I asked a few months ago if we could increase the density of the smoke of the missiles fired from the VLS cells and in general from the ships and from all the units in DCS. The developers replied that they had put my request on the list, let's hope my wish will be granted in the next updates.
As for the smoke from the chimneys, I don't care much.

Regarding the smoke from ship chimneys, I noticed that even if the density is increased in the options, the smoke does not come out the same.

Yep, no amount of editing changes the default smoke now

[crazyeddie]

Can you switch it off ?

 

Late edit - yes you can switch it all off. 

Edited Wednesday at 10:43 AM by crazyeddie

[currenthill]

45 minutes ago, crazyeddie said:

Can you switch it off ?

Yep, the only thing you can do at the moment is enable/disable and position it. Size doesn't work, presets doesn't work. So I will have it disabled for new ships, can't have the modern ships looking like the Kuznetsov.

[Beldin]

I've not set the in game setting slider for "smoke density"  to 0 yet but moving it to 1 seemed to have no effect

[crazyeddie]

I wonder if this is ever going to get fixed - what we had before was almost perfect, what we have now is garbage. 

I live in hope !

[The Stick]

On 7/17/2024 at 11:09 PM, currenthill said:

Yep, the only thing you can do at the moment is enable/disable and position it. Size doesn't work, presets doesn't work. So I will have it disabled for new ships, can't have the modern ships looking like the Kuznetsov.

Waitaminute - you mean it is possible to get the Kuznetsov to belch and billow black smoke like it should??!

[crazyeddie]

2 hours ago, The Stick said:

Waitaminute - you mean it is possible to get the Kuznetsov to belch and billow black smoke like it should??!

Nope - White smoke only - and not a  "belch" as such - more of a gentle "phut phut"

There are Arcade games out there with better looking funnel smoke.- come on ED, you can do better, we know you can. 

[Beldin]

5 hours ago, crazyeddie said:

There are Arcade games out there with better looking funnel smoke.- come on ED, you can do better, we know you can. 

Yes the old smoke was fine