here reference shots :



And how it looks in the game, any comments are welcome.

The 4th and 6th in-game shots look eerily real.

However, in order to get the fire to be visible from a distance, you had to make them too big.

Even by your reference pictures, it is obvious the fire is not on scale (to which the second should not apply, since if I'm not mistaken that the infamous lightning of the oil wells in Iraq... not tanks or infantry).

I know you are working around the limitations of the engine, but at the end, it just looks odd to shoot at a tank and get a fireball that goes up half a mile.

The smoke trail is too constrained. Even if the pictures make it look dark and thick, since the game gives it more contrast, it needs to be more transparent. Ideally, you could not see a clearly defined boundary at the top of the smoke plume, but again, I guess this is another limitation of the engine.

Don't misunderstand me, I appreciate your efforts. I just don't see this as an improvement of what I consider were the best effects, from the 1.12.3 allmods... these are... just different.

Too constrained its true, but even in combat helo is identical smoke, because distracted looks hopeless.
Now the appearance of smoke and fire depends on the wind.
Small wind-focused smoke and short fire , large wind smoke dispersed and long fire.
All shots is the same smoke and fire, differ only in the wind and distance.
the fire tank produces a lot of fire.

Small fire can not be done.

2 times darker and 2 times less fire

That's the right idea.

looking good ...

How old is this sim?! Looking damn good! (imho)

looking great ! Thx Banita for the great work! Could you make the smoke go higher , farther out( like thick smoke becoming lighter smoke), it looks funny just ending the way it does, though not sure if it's engine limiting this...

Firebird--->Slowly, slowly,do better these plumes