Steam/Air venting?

[noonespecial]

Is it possible, with the KSP particle system, to have an animation where there is "steam venting"? If possible, any idea how to accomplish it?

such as:

[nli2work]

SmokeScreen does it all.

for a simple venting look, set the emission speed input to 0 and taper off emission rate as the vehicle starts to move. a reversed smoke trail basically.

you should be able to place a particle FX at any transform using FSanimateGeneric, I'm still trying to figure out how to do it properly.

Edited October 20, 2014 by nli2work

[worir4]

Try cool rockets! It seems to be what you are after

[nli2work]

Sarbian is talking with dtobi. maybe in a future update Cool Rockets will get wrapped into SmokeScreen. that would be pretty sweet.

[noonespecial]

Thanks for the advice everyone .

However, before I go trying to configure these plugins, it is something that is possible with stock? I don't have anything against plugins, but do try to minimize plugin dependencies as much as possible. As this is not a necessary component of what I'm working on (just a nice, although unneeded, visual effect).

[nli2work]

you can fake it with stock ModuleEngineFX. define additional emitters MODEL_MULTI_PARTICLE{} for running mode at transforms (something other than thrustTransform) you placed in the MU, set emission rate to 1 at 0 throttle and fade to 0 emission as you throttle up. if the part is not an engine, set the thrust to 0 and resource consumption low. but with the dfault thrust at 50% the effect will probably be missed by many people.

Edited October 21, 2014 by nli2work