1.Leagal junk: Feel free to edit the effect, As it has no protection law and was created by me from a text file, But I do advise people who edit everything they can (Like me) to backup there old file, Like if you were to edit this effect, You should put a copy in a safe folder, or on a floppy disk. YOU MAY {GIVE} THIS EFFECT AWAY, FOR FREE, DO NOT CHARGE ANY CASH FOR THE EFFECT!
2.Important: This effect was created by mistake, And was supposed to be a smoke cloud, But it is now a trail, Any problems with the effect should be mailed to PAU174u@aol.com
3.Effect: This effect works well with small planes and cars, and any boats. If you install it on a larger model, It will still work though!
1.Adding: Put the effect in your FS2002\EFFECTS folder, To do so, Right click the icon for FS2002 on your desktop (This is if you are right handed if left handed use the left button) and click [Properties] A grey box will appear, With tabs at the top, One saying [GENRAL] the other [SHORTCUT] Click the SHORTCUT tab, Dont edit anything, Click the button labled
|FIND TARGET| a folder will open, Look for the Effects folder, Labled EFFECTS open the EFFECTS folder, If fx_smoke_fb.fx & fx_smoke_hb.fx is still in the zip file unzip it to a folder e,g; My Documents, When this has been done right click fx_smoke_fb.fx & fx_smoke_hb.fx (Highlight them first, so they are linked by the selection) and select [COPY] now go back to the EFFECTS folder and open the EDIT menu at the top, Click [PASTE] whic is in the EDIT menu. The effect is installed, To install to a model see step 2 below.
2.Go back to the folder before EFFECTS, Open the AIRCRAFT folder, Open the aircraft you want e,g; B737_400 then open AIRCRAFT.CFG
Note: If OPEN WITH comes up, Select notepad from the list and click OK
Scroll down the list to the bottom, Add 3 empty lines to the bottom, Go to the middle of the lines at the end, And type or Copy by highlighting and pressing
CTRL C
Keys and going to aircraft.CFG and pressing
CTRL V
keys topaste the text which is:
The at the top click the
FILE
menu
and press save, Close everything, And start FS2002!
Select the aircraft you added it to, And fly, Activate the smoke system, and It should work, This is for single engine, If the aircraft has more engines, e-mail a copy of the aircraft.CFG of the selected plane and I will sort it out for you.
3.If the effect doesnt work, I will accept full liability, However, Any problems such as Increased program crashes is not caused by fx_smoke_fb or fx_smoke_hb
