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FSX Attach effects/Conditions

scubakobe

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Hi,

A couple of questions...

I am trying to attach a smoke effect to a chimney and after searching the forums I have gathered that I'm doing it correctly. Create a dummy object and attach the effect. However it does not show up in FSX - is there a way to preview the effect to make sure it would actually work?

Second is, does FSX still support FS9 object conditions? For example, I only want an object to show up during winter - can that be done in FSX?

Thanks in advance,
Kobbe
 
Hi,

scubakobe said:
I am trying to attach a smoke effect to a chimney and after searching the forums I have gathered that I'm doing it correctly. Create a dummy object and attach the effect. However it does not show up in FSX - is there a way to preview the effect to make sure it would actually work?
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When you say dummy object, do you mean an object of the dummy type in GMax or just a cube that acts as a dummy? I always use the last one and that works fine.

If you want to see if the attachpoint actually ended up in the MDL file, you could try to load the MDL file in ModelConverterX and see if the attachpoint is visible.

scubakobe said:
Second is, does FSX still support FS9 object conditions? For example, I only want an object to show up during winter - can that be done in FSX?
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Yes, but only when you use the FS2004 MDL format. Due to the backwards compatibility they still work. Such conditions are not possible with the FSX MDL format.
 
Thanks for the info Arno.

I am using a cube as a "dummy object" and attaching the effect to it. Not sure if it operates similar to a platform, but the cube does not disappear when I attach the effect to it. When placed in FSX, the cube is still visible, with no effect.
 
Hi,

The cube should disappear in that case, so it looks like something went wrong in the attachtool script.
 
Fixed the problem - sort of.

Used the "Create new attach point" option instead of "Attach to selected geometry" and for the seasonal condition I used the season option, instead of trying to define a range of days. The split range (350-365, 1-60) caused a problem I think.

Thanks for the help.
 
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