The C&O K-4 steam engine: smoke rises up through my tunnel mountain?

[JonMyrlennBailey]

is there a solution to stop engine smoke from penetrating tunnel roofs and ground?

My tunnel is a custom tunnel that uses ordinary 10 m concrete slab spline as a ceiling.

The smoke is penetrating both the concrete and the mountain ground above it.

This occurs in TANE SP2.

The C&O K-4 has a horribly large black smoke plume that is unnaturally high. I get an asthma attack just looking at this ugly virtual smoke. A physical scale-model engine on a model RR would not be nearly as smokey with mere smoke oil.

 

[JCitron]

Check that you have PhysX enabled, which includes particle collision detection.

This is found in the T:ANE Launcher settings and you'll have to restart T:ANE for this function to take affect.

 

[JonMyrlennBailey]

Thanks, John. That really works!

Keeps choo-choo smoke from emanating from hill tops when the loco is inside the tunnel.
My mountain is not really supposed to be a volcano.
My layout's fire department will no longer get notified that there is a high-winds wild fire on my mountain.
I take it this PhysX is the same TANE feature that keeps the rain out of tunnels as well?

Hey, is active volcano content available for Trainz layouts? Just curious not that I desire any for my own routes.

 

[JCitron]

I'm not sure about an active volcano, but there are smoke-objects that can be placed so you can make a smoking mountain, i.e. a volcano if you want. Textures, well there might be some, but I wasn't interested so I never looked for any. A bit of a warning about these smoke/steam objects in case you want to play around with them. They are a piss-ant to remove if you place them!

The PhysX will also keep rain and snow out of the tunnels as well.