Can I have more flame effects?

[NFunky]

Hi all, another (hopefully) quick question.  Any way to increase the altitude at which reentry flame effects start?

 

I'm playing with RSS here, and I would really like to see my parts start to burn before they just explode.  Also, it throws me off that the ablator starts getting chewed up long before there's any visible heat.

 

Thank you!

[Kernel Kraken]

You could increase the re-entry beating in the custom settings, but it makes it much harder to not explode when it does start to look cool. I think some graphics mods might take care of it, but I don't use any.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

This doesn't give "sooner" flame effects, but it does give "more" effects.

I've also heard that Deadly Re-entry adds more fire effects and such? Can't say, I've never used it myself.

[NFunky]

Yeah, I had DR already, cause it's a requirement of RO, but I hadn't tried the particle effects mod.  It doesn't change when the FX begin, but it is really cool looking and I'm going to use it from now on.  Makes the reentry effects look so much better.

Anyone have any other ideas?  I notice some settings in the Physics.cfg about reentry effects, but have no idea what exactly to change.  There are also similar settings in the Realism Overhaul folder, so I'm not sure if I should try changing those, or the Physics.cfg ones.

[Kerbital]

On 4/3/2018 at 9:11 AM, TheMadKraken2297 said:

You could increase the re-entry beating in the custom settings, but it makes it much harder to not explode when it does start to look cool. I think some graphics mods might take care of it, but I don't use any.

LOL, they do take a beating during landing for sure

[Kernel Kraken]

Just now, Kerbital said:

LOL, they do take a beating during landing for sure

What's landing? How do I do it?