Thank you! I'll go look into that and try and learn more. Haha and as funny as the elephant plumes may be, it may also be kind of instructional how to replace plumes with custom things.
I'll go back and try again, but this is what I did
and thanks for all the replies. pretty excited to get this to work. In the end I'd really like there to be just a part that you add on that looks like the Colored smoke oils that airplanes actually use, but figure this may be easier, quicker and basically just "good enough" for what I want it to do.