Willie Pete Smoke Color Change?

[Dusty Rhodes]

Flying with Griff the other night, I noticed that on some of the seasonal terrain, it is near impossible to see the Willie Pete smoke. Is there a way to change the color to make it more prominent? But more important, is that realistic? If it ain't, then I will not change it. If it is realistic to have different colors, then is there a way to change it?

 

Thanks in advance.

[britgliderpilot]

Flying with Griff the other night, I noticed that on some of the seasonal terrain, it is near impossible to see the Willie Pete smoke. Is there a way to change the color to make it more prominent? But more important, is that realistic? If it ain't, then I will not change it. If it is realistic to have different colors, then is there a way to change it?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

. . . . . LOPE up the Russian smoke pods for orange smoke?

[Dmut]

Dusty Rhodes, try edit "\Config\Weapons\DrawInfo.lua", Smokes = []

[Dusty Rhodes]

Those are all AIM-9s or R-73 U. Nothing under that indicates the Willie Pete Marker Smoke. Plus it says not for end user editing and that scared me to change anything, :) LOL

[Olgerd]

This file controls only pods smokes. Right now it is not possible to edit smoke rockets colors.

[Dusty Rhodes]

Thanks a bunch Olgerd!

[coltm4a1]

Dusty,

 

If I may clarify a bit. "Willie Peter" or white phosphorus (WP) can be used for signaling, screening or incendiary purposes. It is used in several styles of military munitions such as the M-15 grenade, mortar rounds, artillery rounds and aerial rockets in a "bursting" type round. When used in conjuction with High Explosive (HE) rounds, this has been commonly referred to as "shake and bake". Looks cool in training, not so cool when you see what this type of fire mission does to real people. WP spotaneously combusts when exposed to air. As the pieces fly throught the air, they leave a white smoke trail. At night, the burst of particles is extremely visible as you see the particles fly. So as a marking round, it is very effective. It does, however, only come in one color, white. It would be unrealistic to model it any other way in the game.

 

COLT

[MBot]

Does that mean that NATO areal-FACs would have to mark targets with white smoke even in winter conditions ? Or are there also other marker rocket types in use that are able to sport smoke of different colour?

[coltm4a1]

MBoT,

 

I'm not sure what the answer is. I have no combat experience in Europe or winter conditions. My expertise lies more with weapons, CAS, and other systems, etc that are on-call for grunts (infantry). Maybe an Air Force person can field this one?

[hitman]

Its been noted that some FACS controllers would drop CS grenades if out of WP. I had an old friend of mine who used to fly the bird-dog in 'nam, tellin me stories about how he would mark positions for downed pilots if they couldnt pop smoke safely. Its pretty straightforward the way he described it, saying popped yellow smoke, the target is bearing 180, 300 yards.