This instructions will allow you to install smokes not only to the default aircraft but also to any other you wish except helicopters.
1.- Copy the Gauges and the Effects folders to the main folder of fs9 and let overwrite
2.- For default aircraft, copy to the aircraft.cfg of each one, the text contained in the file corresponding to each aircraft that appears in the Smokes for default folder.
For the A380 the smokes are in the Smokes for A380 folder.
3.- When installing smokes on any other aircraft go to the aircraft.cfg file and search for:
[GeneralEngineData]
Check the number of engines.
If 1: Engine.0=xxxx,xxx,xxx
If 2: Engine.0=xxxx,xxx,xxx
Engine.1=xxxx,xxx,xxx
If 3; Engine.0=xxxx,xxx,xxx
Engine.1=xxxx,xxx,xxx
Engine.2=xxxx,xxx,xxx
Column 1= Up (-) Down
Column 2= Forward (-) Back
Column 3= Right (-) Left
You can use any kind of smoke you like better. There are lots of them available for FS2002 that will work in 2004 just the same
I enclose the ones I like best:
fx_smoke_rx_pc -----------Gray
fx_smoke_w ---------------White
fx_smoke_ys11 -----------Another kind of gray (this I prefer)
fx_smoke_r ---------------Red
fx_smoke_rx --------------A darker kind of gray
IMPORTANT NOTE
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Be aware of NOT writting the .fx next to the effect in the Aircraft.cfg
or effect will not appear.
Example:
"fx_smoke_r.fx" effect must be copied fx_smoke_r in Smokesystem
In Lockheed Vega which is a piston you add at the end of [Window00]
gaugexx=Autosmoke!PistonSmoke, 0,0
and change the xx for the number of the gauge to follow to the last one, in this case 31