About the trail of rocket engines

[markyy]

 

After the release of patch 0.1.3, while launching another rocket (this time with more FPS), I noticed a rather strange behavior of the trail from the rocket engines.

If someone hasn't guessed, I mean turning this trail along with the rocket.
I have little experience in unity development and I understand why it works this way and how it is implemented.
But, imagine how cool it would be if the trace from the engines did not rotate with the rocket and followed the laws of physics, or, at least, had its own inertia

I mean... guys.. ksp1 already works this way


This behavior will be implemented, yea?..

Edited June 23, 2023 by markyy

[dr.phees]

Hahaha! Thanks for posting!!

[Superfluous J]

5 hours ago, markyy said:

 

I mean... guys.. ksp1 already works this way

So much for "they just copied KSP1's code"

[Spicat]

They did a system for that sometimes ago:

Maybe it wasn't good enough for them and decided to scrap it for now.

We also know they will work on plumes again (From Nate Simpson):

Source for the gif above:

[markyy]

13 minutes ago, Spicat said:

They did a system for that sometimes ago:

Maybe it wasn't good enough for them and decided to scrap it for now.

We also know they will work on plumes again (From Nate Simpson):

Source for the gif above:

 

I think it's more about visuals than physical behavior and in the gif above, most likely just the effect of the direction of the thrust vector, but not the rotation of the rocket itself. Also noticed that they using mesh scaling, it's impossible to implement KSP1 smoke's behavior with mesh scaling, they'll have to use particles and it is a lot of work, if current smoke also works with mesh scaling as fire plume

[markyy]

1 hour ago, Superfluous J said:

So much for "they just copied KSP1's code"

It would be much better if it were true..

Edited June 23, 2023 by markyy

[Aaron VFX]

Hi All,
Good call out. This is on the list.

Attaching the particles to the local space of the engine is not the intended final result. We will improve engine exhaust effects in the future. What may seem like a straightforward solution gets really tricky under the hood.