[1.8.x-1.10.x] SmokeScreen 2.8.14 - Extended FX plugin (18 April 2020)

[smunisto]

This is amazing. I wish all the authors of all the FX mods that appeared in the last months, would come together and publish them together as a single mod, containing configs for other mods, since their plugins should effect not only vanilla KSP.

[sarbian]

I'm not sure whether it's too late to change the identifiers (there shouldn't be too many compatibility problems right now), but I think 'persistant' should be replaced by 'persistent' (unless you intended to name the classes in French). I'll report it as a bug on GitHub.

That's what happens when I code too late : French start popping up in my code

How much does this stuff hurt performance? Does it put any more load onto the CPU, or is it primarily GPU intensive?

It depends a lot of the effects.

Long lasting smoke/dust effect can slow down the game fast if they overlap ( like if you stay too long on the launchpad )

Strangely collision does not have a big impact on my PC but I have an i7 ...

Edited March 6, 2014 by sarbian

[CaptRobau]

Damn it Nothke, my jaw just fell to the ground after seeing those FX.

Would Smokescreen make it possible to have those launch plumes Nothke once showcased at a decent FPS? They were cancelled after being 'too buggy', but that might be with the old system.

[Proot]

Subscribed. You guys rock! Thanks!

Could this have a small GUI in next releases? (like DOE or Visual Enhancements)

Thank you again by this type of amazing mods, that not only allow you modify the game, but also explore the modding world in a less technical way. Best mods.

[DasBananenbrot]

Like this:

http://i.imgur.com/JLyMdTkl.png

or this..

http://i.imgur.com/CHqJHLnl.png

or this..

http://i.imgur.com/vmoUMltl.png

Oh myyyyy ....This looks fantastic , can't wait to get my hands on this. In the meantime I'm going to change my pants xD

[Raptor831]

Nazari released some of the new effects with this plugin in HotRockets. I'm testing them out, and they are amazing. SRB plumes go on an on! It's awesome.

Pics:

(rocket is at the very top of this image)

(with collision on, but kills my framerate when I sit at the launchpad)

[erona]

Wow this is fantastic! I can't wait to see the results with the proper settings. Great work sarbian, nothke, and Nazari1382. It feels like Christmas is coming early haha!

[Camacha]

That is looking a lot better already. I think some tweaks need to be made for lifelike behaviour (dispersion et cetera), but I like where this is going.

[HerrGeneral]

That is looking a lot better already. I think some tweaks need to be made for lifelike behaviour (dispersion et cetera), but I like where this is going.

Yeah, and over time the smoke particles should get bigger- but it's looking fantastic so far!

[sarbian]

The settings are here to make them bigger with time (grow), they just need to test them and find the proper config.

[Camacha]

I must say I really love this. It is one of the things that make rockets launches great and the stock KSP effects are decent, but lacking the awe factor real launches have.

[Trollsama]

So is this always going to be just the tool aspect to "make your own"

Or are we going to see some nice preset/pre-mades included for the people that frankly, are not skilled enough to do it themselves?

[sarbian]

Did you read the thread ? HotRocket was already updated to use it, Nothke is working on some config and I am sure others are too.

[GavinZac]

http://i.imgur.com/CHqJHLnl.png

I have never ....................... to a rocket plume before

Edited March 8, 2014 by sal_vager

[nothke]

I have never ....................... to a rocket plume before

That's actually a jet contrail (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/341584357_1d7998dcaa.jpg)

Edited March 8, 2014 by sal_vager

[pingopete]

Is there somewhere/link to get these in my game, they need to be in my game, now :'D

[sidfu]

i suck at doing my own .cfg for this can someoen post some so i can test it without crashing my game due to errors im causing lol.

[Camacha]

i suck at doing my own .cfg for this can someoen post some so i can test it without crashing my game due to errors im causing lol.

Try paying more attention to correctly formulating words - that will cause errors in .cfg's. It also helps others to read your posts

[Raptor831]

Is there somewhere/link to get these in my game, they need to be in my game, now :'D

i suck at doing my own .cfg for this can someoen post some so i can test it without crashing my game due to errors im causing lol.

If you want to try some of this, check out HotRockets. Link: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/65754-HotRockets%21-Particle-FX-Replacement-Tutorial

It has basic support at the moment, but the screenshots I posted on the previous page were taken using that.

[erona]

I decided to dive into Unity today and try my hand at some custom particle effects and got a pretty good smoke one going for the SRBs. I'll see if I can put something together by the end of the weekend. Also I'm going to try my hand at making some configs for KW as well if these turn out.

[Raptor831]

On the note of KW configs, is there a way to offset the effects in the negative direction? KW's engines seem to have the FX point rather far from the engine bells, and I can't get the effect to move.

For example, the KW Griffon XX effect point is like 1 meter below the engine bell. I've tried everything I can think of to get the offset to push it up into the bell. localOffset in the EFFECT{} node, fxOffset in the ModuleEnginesFX{} node, and even putting a negative number in the offset = 1.0 -1.0 in the new MODEL_MULTI_PARTICLE_PERSIST{} node defined in this mod. Positive numbers work in the new node, but negative doesn't seem to (i.e. I can push the flames further down, but not closer).

Is there anything I missed?

[Kommitz]

This is great, and really what I was hoping for in the stock implementation. Finally we're able to scale things over time (which really should have been in the basic implementation), and also the atmospheric modifiers are great.

I'm looking forward to updating my own parts to take full advantage.

[Naten]

Erm... so how do I make smoke in Unity?

And will the model.mu file just be a particle system? :P

[lextor]

I have never ....................... to a rocket plume before

This isn't my fetish:(

Edited March 8, 2014 by sal_vager

[erona]

Here's a video of my progress for the SRB. I modified the stock large and small ones.

Download config and FX files https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6861684/Smoketrails.zip