[Arkangel]

Where can I find those white trails by Bobboau?

[Bobboau]

what?

[Solatar]

Screenshots might be helpful.

[Bob-san]

Missile trails, I assume?

[Arkangel]

http://www.geocities.com/cek_83/happytrails.txt

Nope, ship trails

[Bobboau]

ok, so I get garbage text when I try to open that.

but in any event I don't know what you are talking about. if you want to add contrails you do so in the sips.tbl, unless you are talking about afterburner trails, which I did have something to do with, in which case you also need to modify the table as all I did was added the code for it, I never actualy released any mod useing it. if that's not it then I realy have no idea what you are looking for

sorry if I'm not being helpful but I have a bit of a headache right now

[Mongoose]

It's a renamed .jpg.  Geo****ties never did take too kindly to image hotlinking.

[Arkangel]

Bobboau introduces much improved thruster trails.

Ahh sorry about that, the link worked for me...

sorry if I'm not being helpful but I have a bit of a headache right now

Dont worry about it, im grateful

[Bobboau]

Oh, THAT, those are actually secondary thruster glows, you should already have them if you have just about any of the media vp packs. they aren't quite as long as that anymore by default, but you can add a scaleing factor, check the wiki for the exact syntax.

[Arkangel]

any recommendation on where to look on the wiki? or just how to unlock them without goin into scripts....?

[BlackDove]

Question being, WHY THE **** ARE THEY NOT IN RETAIL LIKE THEY ARE IN THAT SCREENSHOT.

Wat.

[Wanderer]

http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Ships.tbl#Customized_Thruster_Effects
$Thruster02 Length factor:

[Topgun]

is any way to make the trails get longer/shorter depending on the speed they are going at?

[DaBrain]

Question being, WHY THE **** ARE THEY NOT IN RETAIL LIKE THEY ARE IN THAT SCREENSHOT.

Wat.

Because they look bad once the ship is doing anything else but flying straight forward.
More iterations in the flame would fix that, but it's not that easy. I'd really like to see an improvement on the thruster flames though.

is any way to make the trails get longer/shorter depending on the speed they are going at?

It should already be scaled depending on your speed. (Actually on the thrust.)