Exhaust Effects for Diesels

[Alxmac84]

The exhaust effects on my EMDs especially is unrealistic, and I was wanting to know how you make the exhaust come out more forceful, instead of in puffs. Kind of like a steady stream of lighter exhaust that isn't bent immediately over the locomotives by wind, but instead maybe about 10-20 feet above the locomotives. I'm more using this on my MACs and ACes and other 710s.

Any suggestions,
Alex

 

[JCitron]

Hi Alex,

This sounds like you'll need to edit the smoke effects section in the config.txt file for the locomotive. For what values you need, I can't help you there.

John

 

[Alxmac84]

Hi Alex,

This sounds like you'll need to edit the smoke effects section in the config.txt file for the locomotive. For what values you need, I can't help you there.

John

Thanks John, and I have already looked at them in Content Creator. I just can't think of the values either.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Clone a loco, and experiment on a cloned loco.

There are some great smoking Alcos on the DLS, that you can examine their config file.

I experimented with fastlife, minsize, maxsize, and other tags, changing their value, and even the smoke color numerals, with fantastic results.

felix_g has some great smoking locos.

One Europen steam loco has Twinkles smoke effect, it is awesome !

 

[itareus]

As John said you will need to edit the smoke section. Have a look at this page:

http://online.ts2009.com/mediaWiki/index.php5/Index_of_Tags_&_Containers

Look for the word "smoke" (if you use IE as your browser the use the "Edit" menu "Find on this page" option).

As to the exact settings I can't help but I would have a look for an existing loco that has the best effect as far as you are concerned, copy the smoke effects and then use good old "trial and error" to get the look you want.

 

[sniper297]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkPYOzF_ZSY

 

[davesnow]

Check out any locos made by Prjindigo (Roger Crouch) or one of my reskins of his SD40-2's. They have a steady stream of smoke, but it might be TOO much for your liking.

Cheers,

Dave


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