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nortopj
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:45 am Post subject: contrails |
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The contrails in my simulations extend, as usual, rearwards.
However, in the past few months (after several new downloads were added) contrails produce additional filaments that extend downwards and fall to earth in an arc.
It is not only my own airplane that does this but any passing high altitude traffic too.
It hasn't always done this and it occurs as soon as the contrail appears - at around 26,000 feet. It does have a use though: when I'm 'flying' my Me262, and my target is not visible from low level, I can follow the contrail filament upward and reach it quicker. Cheating, I know, but the Me262 doesn't have much duration...
Can anyone out there suggest a fix? |
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mel wilson
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Location: England, Biggin Hill, (EGKB)
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:23 am Post subject: |
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Can you please stipulate first, which version of Flight Sim we are talking about ?.
Mel. |
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groundsquirrel
Joined: 10 Mar 2004
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Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:43 am Post subject: here we go again... |
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| The problem is that you have overwritten your contrail effect with the 2k2 version. |
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nortopj
Joined: 26 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject: EARTH-BOUND CONTRAILS |
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I forgot to mention that I am finding this contrail problem on FS2004.
If I have accidentally overwritten with a FS2002 contrail effect, and I have recently installed add-ons originally designed for FS2002 but which I took to have been fully converted to suit FS2004..., what do I do now?
Is there a 'dodgy contrail fix' somewhere or will I have to get used to it? |
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rd
Joined: 10 Mar 2005
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Location: COMFORTABLY NUMB, in U.S.A. *** KOFF ***
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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Post up your [Lightsystem] and [Smokesystem] details inside your a/c .cfg.
Or, go into our downloads library, and install a new one.
RD |
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harkonnen
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Location: New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I had the exact same problem in FS2002 once. I had installed an 'upgraded' contrail effect...don't remember if it was just a texture swap or more. All my contrails would just fall out of the sky and actually leave a big ol' white line on the ground that was immediately snorted up by Pete Doherty. Seriously though, I think I just put the default stuff back in, or did a re-install of the sim...that was before I knew about refreshing the .CFG file as RD suggested. |
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groundsquirrel
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Location: Navarre,Florida-USA (KVPS,KHRT,KPNS)
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: this is not... |
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| This is not a .cfg issue. It is an incompatible old contrail .fx file problem. Just find the file on your install disks and copy it into your effects folder answering "yes" to overwrite. |
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rd
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Location: COMFORTABLY NUMB, in U.S.A. *** KOFF ***
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| Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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@ GS....... I wanted to see what he had inside for the effect. I know it can't be changed inside the .cfg.
As you will notice, I told him to get a new one.
RD |
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