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#3180851 - 01/16/11 02:21 PM Ship smokestacks  
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I have tried the search function but there is no result, so here goes. I have noticed that the smoke from the ship smokestacks in pictures from Rising Sun is a lot lighter than that in YAP. Although the very black smoke in YAP2 is useful/sometimes vital for finding the ships to land on after a mission,it seems to be a lot darker than videos I have seen of carriers operating in the Tonkin Gulf. This may be ignorance on my part about fuel at different times in history, etc., but I wonder if anyone can shed light on this issue, and if there is a way of lightening the smoke effect in YAP?

Will be buying Rising Sun once I am back from travelling abroad, but in the meantime I am still trucking with YAP - and always will do!.

Thanks for any info.

Viva YAP!

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#3181191 - 01/17/11 01:11 AM Re: Ship smokestacks [Re: SandyC]  
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SandyC,

Unless you want to go messing around in the particlesystemINI, changing values with the emitter for shipsmoke, the easiest way is to just rename one of the smoke.tga's in your effects folder to your liking. You can extract the stock Smoke.tga from the flightdata CAT file also if you like.

#3181496 - 01/17/11 03:25 PM Re: Ship smokestacks [Re: SandyC]  
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Yeah I have heard that an engineer would of been Keel-hauled,or severely reprimanded if the smoke was other then very lite grey, and that the only time a ship would have produced that much smoke was right before coming into port. to clean out all of the soot and stuff because it's illegal to do it in port.

#3182020 - 01/18/11 12:59 AM Re: Ship smokestacks [Re: SandyC]  
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The Mahan was a smoker. The rest should actually use the stock smoke and not the one that was drifting around years ago. We used to keep it in to spot the carriers when flying a plane without radar but now that we use the BALL trick, it's unnecessary.

#3182206 - 01/18/11 10:37 AM Re: Ship smokestacks [Re: SandyC]  
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Zerocinco, Thanks very much for the speedy response and suggestion. I did think that perhaps it was there to help spotting/landing before the BALL era. Viva YAP.


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