Expandable exhaust effect

[zoranbrasnjo]

This would be minor feature but it would help little bit with game immersion.

When you look at real rocket launch videos you would notice rocket exhaust gets wider and wider with the altitude increase/air pressure decrease.

In this video you can see how exhaust gets wider at about 2 minutes

[Hcube]

100% agreed. It does feel very weird to see that the exhaust plume is always the same...

But then, I understand it would look very weird at low throttles... Almost no exhaust plume, very short, yet it would expand a lot laterally...

[Capt Snuggler]

Agree. I hope they add this at some point.

[Hobbes Novakoff]

I like the current way; it just looks better to have a sort of rockety-looking rocket exhaust instead of a gigantic yellow funnel.

[CitizenAerospace]

I like the current way; it just looks better to have a sort of rockety-looking rocket exhaust instead of a gigantic yellow funnel.

...But the gigantic yellow funnel is what rocket exhaust looks like?!

[Master_Evar]

I like the current way; it just looks better to have a sort of rockety-looking rocket exhaust instead of a gigantic yellow funnel.

What you're thinking of is Sci-fi exhausts. Normal rocket exhaust are those gigantic yellow funnels.

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Maybe for space, but as long as you are in yet thick enough atmosphere the exhaust should look a bit more solid.

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The BAC-9 is the only rocket that i feel have the "right" exhaust, thick, heavy and hot.

[Red Iron Crown]

Yes, please. Looks like they're moving in this direction by making the fire trenches on the pad functional and adding exhaust/surface interaction, hopefully they'll improve exhaust plume effects at some point, too. I'd love to see something like this in the stock game: