Change engine exhaust animation/scale animation [1.3]

[UbuntuLinuxKing]

Hi,

I've been working on an engine mod, and I would like to know how I would change the animation of the Mainsail engine exhaust to that of the ion engine exhaust. I would also like to know if I can scale up the animation to fit the 2.5m part.

Thanks!

[SpannerMonkey(smce)]

Hi to change the FX of mainsail to Ion you would simply copy the fx references  from the ion to the mainsail, though as the mainsail still uses module engines and the ion engine uses module engine FX this leaves you with two alternatives.  i notice that ION plume is still ref'd in the FX folder  so you may be able to simply swap the fx_exhaustLight_blue to IonPlume.   Although i have a suspicion that wont work out too well. The best option is to convert your mainsail to module engines FX and use the ion FX cfg block.

While you can change how much is emitted from exhaust FX,  the fx particle model is a fixed size and can only scale with an engine, there is no facility to scale FX size independently as the fx model has no cfg of it's own