Bowie Posted July 2 Posted July 2 They burn fuel, not wood, and use a closed, high-pressure steam turbine propulsion system, not open piston. The Exhaust should resemble lean diesel smoke, or, better, F-4 Phantom II Jet exhaust, which is burning kerosene. USS Forrestal and LHA-1 Tarawa are the worst offenders, and use the same "ship".lua "GT.exhaust", except Tarawa uses twice as much (two stacks). None... looks better than OEM, as they have been disabled. Please advise. Bowie 4
Bowie Posted July 3 Author Posted July 3 Actually, the A-4E-C Exhaust, at full power, would be about perfect all by itself. Cat#3 Super.trk Bowie 1
Raisuli Posted July 3 Posted July 3 25 minutes ago, Bowie said: Actually, the A-4E-C Exhaust, at full power, would be about perfect all by itself Bowie Still too much. Actually those ships burned asphalt, or Navy Special, or Number 5/6 bunker, which is virtually indistinguishable from asphalt at ten paces on a cold day, and you could always tell if you were downwind. The stink was impressive. But they never (in my recollection) blew smoke unless they were blowing out the pipes. This is the Connie, not the Forest Fire, but they used the same go juice. For comparison, an F-14 in a hurry. Please note a calm, if cloudy day, and the water is NOT A STINKING FLAT PLATE! I was doing carrier operations (in an F-16) and got all annoyed by the water again. 3
Northstar98 Posted July 3 Posted July 3 Yeah not sure why it was changed - this new effect is accurate almost never and nowhere. I was essentially told by BIGNEWY that the issue is too minor to be worth reporting (but apparently major enough to warrant being changed when it was more accurate previously). Unfortunately when this was brought up for the Kilo, the thread was marked correct as is, based on a couple of choice photographs that still show nothing as thick as in DCS. I did go through just about every vessel at the time that's been given this new smoke, which can be found here. 2 Modules I own: F-14A/B, F-4E, Mi-24P, AJS 37, AV-8B N/A, F-5E-3, MiG-21bis, F-16CM, F/A-18C, Supercarrier, Mi-8MTV2, UH-1H, Mirage 2000C, FC3, MiG-15bis, Ka-50, A-10C (+ A-10C II), P-47D, P-51D, C-101, Yak-52, WWII Assets, CA, NS430, Hawk. Terrains I own: South Atlantic, Syria, The Channel, SoH/PG, Marianas. System: GIGABYTE B650 AORUS ELITE AX, AMD Ryzen 5 7600, Corsair Vengeance DDR5-5200 32 GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070S FE, Western Digital Black SN850X 1 TB (DCS dedicated) & 2 TB NVMe SSDs, Corsair RM850X 850 W, NZXT H7 Flow, MSI G274CV. Peripherals: VKB Gunfighter Mk.II w. MCG Pro, MFG Crosswind V3 Graphite, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro.
Raisuli Posted July 3 Posted July 3 28 minutes ago, Northstar98 said: Yeah not sure why it was changed - this new effect is accurate almost never and nowhere. I was essentially told by BIGNEWY that the issue is too minor to be worth reporting (but apparently major enough to warrant being changed when it was more accurate previously). Unfortunately there are many things in DCS that 'aren't important enough to fix' but were important enough to break. 4
Bowie Posted 16 hours ago Author Posted 16 hours ago (edited) interpreting On 7/3/2025 at 7:52 AM, Raisuli said: Unfortunately there are many things in DCS that 'aren't important enough to fix' but were important enough to break. Think what they are interpreting as "smoke"... is actually condensed water vapor. Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgLSfGyhzRc Not going to happen in the Persian Gulf, or the Marianas. Looks like, from what can tell from images, that the old "smoke" was pretty good. Like JP-5 jet exhaust. Bowie Edited 16 hours ago by Bowie
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