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Effects turn invisible

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MartinLoga

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Hi,

we use a lot of effects for lights on top of mdl models or directly as standalone effect placed in the scene via SimConnect. Locks good so far but after a while the effects turn invisible. All of them!

It is my belive that it is somehow triggered by the loading and unloading machanisms for models and terrain.

So one szenario is if I place an effect like 100 miles away from the own entity and than jump there the effect will never show up even if the terrain is completely loaded. Or if I don't wait for the terrain to be loaded an place the effect right next to the own entity it will also never appear. Only if I wait first for the terrain to be loaded and place the effect then next to the own entity the effect will show up.

Another szenario is to repeadetly place and remove mdl files that contain effects in the scene. After a while not only the effects that belong to that mdl file that was placed an removed disappear but also all other effects in the scene.

Please help!
 
Some effects may have issues with DX10 as aircraft lights have this issue and only show from specific directions.
See if this happens in DX9 as the aircraft lights always work perfect.
 
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Thanks for that hint but I'm sure I can rule that out.

After more tests it seems that there is some kind of a maximum number of effects you can have in the scene and that my effects never really have been removed from the scene.

So in more detail. I have an mdl file that contains just effects. It is meant to be runway lights. If I remove and add the runway lights for some time. The lights disapear. Fortunately I found a contellation where not all the lights disapear but just some of them. So I started playing arround with the effect file. Playing with priorities and the effect type. And then when I turned from type 19 to type 25 the effects did not disapear anymore ... ever. So even if I removed the mdl file from the scene the effects stayed. So apperently the effects are not destroyed and that leaves two questions. Is there a limit of how many effects there can be in the scene and why where the effects not removed from the scene?
 
This is one of the effects I use. Maybe someone can find a problem here?

[Library Effect]
Lifetime=5
Version=2.00
Radius=-1
Priority=0
[Properties]
[Emitter.0]
Lifetime=0.50, 0.50
Delay=0.00, 0.00
Bounce=0.00
No Interpolate=1
Rate=1.00, 1.00
X Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Drag=0.00, 0.00
X Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
X Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Y Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Z Rotation=0.00, 0.00
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
Pitch=0.00, 0.00
Bank=0.00, 0.00
Heading=0.00, 0.00
[Particle.0]
Lifetime=0.00, 0.00
Type=19
X Scale=1.40, 1.40
Y Scale=1.40, 1.40
Z Scale=0.00, 0.00
X Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Y Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Z Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Drag=0.00, 0.00
Color Rate=0.00, 0.00
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
Fade In=0.00, 0.00
Fade Out=0.00, 0.00
Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Static=1
Face=1, 0, 0
[ParticleAttributes.0]
Blend Mode=2
Texture=RD_RWY_lights_Star.bmp
Bounce=0.00
Color Start=255, 255, 255, 5
Color End=255, 255, 255, 0
Jitter Distance=0.00
Jitter Time=0.00
uv1=0.00, 0.00
uv2=1.00, 1.00
X Scale Goal=0.00
Y Scale Goal=0.00
Z Scale Goal=0.00
Extrude Length=0.00
Extrude Pitch Max=0.00
Extrude Heading Max=0.00
[Emitter.1]
Lifetime=0.50, 0.50
Delay=0.00, 0.00
Bounce=0.00
No Interpolate=1
Rate=1.00, 1.00
X Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Emitter Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Drag=0.00, 0.00
X Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Y Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
Z Particle Velocity=0.00, 0.00
X Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Y Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Z Rotation=0.00, 0.00
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
Pitch=0.00, 0.00
Bank=0.00, 0.00
Heading=0.00, 0.00
[Particle.1]
Lifetime=0.00, 0.00
Type=19
X Scale=4.00, 4.00
Y Scale=4.00, 4.00
Z Scale=0.00, 0.00
X Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Y Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Z Scale Rate=0.00, 0.00
Drag=0.00, 0.00
Color Rate=0.00, 0.00
X Offset=0.00, 0.00
Y Offset=0.00, 0.00
Z Offset=0.00, 0.00
Fade In=0.00, 0.00
Fade Out=0.00, 0.00
Rotation=0.00, 0.00
Static=1
Face=1, 0, 0
[ParticleAttributes.1]
Blend Mode=2
Texture=RD_RWY_lights_Halo2.bmp
Bounce=0.00
Color Start=180, 180, 180, 255
Color End=180, 180, 180, 0
Jitter Distance=0.00
Jitter Time=0.00
uv1=0.00, 0.00
uv2=1.00, 1.00
X Scale Goal=0.00
Y Scale Goal=0.00
Z Scale Goal=0.00
Extrude Length=0.00
Extrude Pitch Max=0.00
Extrude Heading Max=0.00
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