[FlareBaffled]

Update:

Home from work, and I threw in the text as Bobbau suggested..and it works just fine!

I used the 'circle hit' ani for the burners, and it looks pretty much how I wanted right off.  Pure luck on the choice of file...but good for me! I have some blue sparkly effect on thrusters which won't stay.... but it's easy to see that things are working! I will play about a bit to get a feel for how the parameters will tune the effect to give me just what I want..but this os good so far!

Thanks for the help Bobbau! I would never have got this by trial and error 

[Getter Robo G]

The masses (namely me) demand screenies!) 

Might want to pick your brain later about this for "other things" (ominous huh?).

TBC...

[FlareBaffled]

flying in normal mode...


Then with afterburners


The afterburner effects are using stock FS2 ani files, and are pretty much a first stab at parameters. Reducing the variation tightens the field of particles some ( which it needs ) and reducing the volum would be a good plan too! But if I can get it like this...then it should be easy enough to get right with practice!

[Snail]

Oooooh... Look at that flame!

[Huggybaby]

Yeah man, thanks for persisting, that looks awesome! I want it!

What really bothers me in my games is that the ships have a long (nice looking) plume coming out the exhaust, even when they're motionless! So much for suspension of disbelief.

Can you fix that too?

[Taristin]

That was code, and supposedly been replaced, or being replaced, no?

[MetalDestroyer]

flying in normal mode...
http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/601/noburnerbx2.jpg

Then with afterburners
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/1253/burnerdb3.jpg

OMFG !! Are they available to download ? if yes, can I get the link ?
I like them pretty much. Are there any variant for the Shivan and Vasudan ships ?

Edit : Oups, sorry, I didn't read the whole thread. Well, the animation thruster are pretty good except the afterburner one where you have a bit exagerated into the effect >_<.

[FlareBaffled]

I have already toned it down a bit. I will also try and make some proper ani files to work with this. These are just using 2 stock ones ( akheton_impact and circe_bitmap ) which I picked pretty much at random  until I found ones I liked. I am sure I can make something that creates particles more in keeping.

Once I have it done, I will gladly put it up for others who want it. It's just a simple bit of code to paste into the ship table and a couple of small graphic files. For other races, it would just be a question of finding other colours/animations to give a bit of differential.

[Commander Zane]

Those look like they would make my computer explode.

[Snail]

The Afterburner one made me laugh actually.

[Herra Tohtori]

Damn, it looks like GTVA has gone back to good ol' chemical rocket era... 



For reference, the rocket there is a Saturn V which was 111 metres (364 ft) tall in lift-off configuration for Apollo missions...

[FlareBaffled]

The flare of burning chemical fuel was exactly what I DID want For the stuff I want to build, the afterburner was essentially a supply of chemical fuel to be sprayed into the cruise ingine exhaust to create an additional thrust for short periods. Fuel will be limited, so when it's gone... it's gone.

I have tamed it a little since the first screenshots, and it is looking how I wanted it to look. I like the effects... and that's all that actually matters to me