[Req] Darker ship smoke

Observer · 04-24-07, 10:40 PM

It's a five second adjustment.

The problem is you can't easily make differences between the old coal burners and the ships burning av gas/diesel fuel without creating a new funnel smoke node (easy) and changing the opacity of the smoke between the two in the particles.dat (also easy). The new node (call it the coal smoke node) would then has to be assigned to all of the coal burning ship (i.e. the freight train above) dat files. It's a pain because it's tedious, time consuming and I'm not 100% sure it can be done correctly at this point.

The other smoke could be just a touch darker than the current version...remember the call "Smoke on the horizon!". You can't do that now with the current smoke.

By the way, the I don't think the funnel smoke differentiates between the speed of the ship (i.e. faster = darker), but I'd have to go back and check the particles.dat to be sure.

04-24-07, 10:40 PM	#12
Observer Commander Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 477 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	It's a five second adjustment. The problem is you can't easily make differences between the old coal burners and the ships burning av gas/diesel fuel without creating a new funnel smoke node (easy) and changing the opacity of the smoke between the two in the particles.dat (also easy). The new node (call it the coal smoke node) would then has to be assigned to all of the coal burning ship (i.e. the freight train above) dat files. It's a pain because it's tedious, time consuming and I'm not 100% sure it can be done correctly at this point. The other smoke could be just a touch darker than the current version...remember the call "Smoke on the horizon!". You can't do that now with the current smoke. By the way, the I don't think the funnel smoke differentiates between the speed of the ship (i.e. faster = darker), but I'd have to go back and check the particles.dat to be sure.