Smoke effects

[noddy]

My smoke effects seems to have gone a bit wrong, all I get is the black blocks per the shots below.

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This is on all models, including the high g vapour as well, however the wing tip effects is uneffected.

Any help would be great. I do you Shade, but only got this yesterday. The only thing I installed recently are the Cera Bell222 and IRIS Twister.

[peter12213]

Whenever I get something like this I think what have I uninstalled, chances are it's an aircraft you have uninstalled which has taken smoke texture files away with it, I happened to me a while back.

[GypsyBaron]

Look in yout aircraft.cfg "Effects" section and find the file name that relates to the problem "smoke".

Then go to your FSX "Effects" folder and locate the .fx file. Open it with any text editior. Scan down through the
various "PaticleAttributes" entries and note the Texture entries. Then look to see if they still exist in the
"Effects\texture" folder, Chances are you will find one of them missing or corrupt.

This is a partial entry from the "fx_engsmoke.fx" file:

[ParticleAttributes.0]
Blend Mode=1
Texture=fx_1.bmp


Paul

[Dave Torkington]

Whenever I get something like this I think what have I uninstalled, chances are it's an aircraft you have uninstalled which has taken smoke texture files away with it, I happened to me a while back.

I've had this happen a time or two, so now I keep a backup of my FSX effects folder just in case.

I recall seeing a post that recommended d/loading the FSX Demo to get the default effects, but can't recall how to safely extract the effects files without installing it...

[noddy]

Thanks guys, yes I to have a back of the effects folder, so copied that across. Didn't get chance to test though. If that has failed will give the fix above.

[noddy]

Well it seems the .bmp files had disappeared!

All back and working again, so paul thanks for pointing me in the right directon.

[FSX68]

My smoke effects seems to have gone a bit wrong, all I get is the black blocks per the shots below.

5107451073

This is on all models, including the high g vapour as well, however the wing tip effects is uneffected.

Any help would be great. I do you Shade, but only got this yesterday. The only thing I installed recently are the Cera Bell222 and IRIS Twister.


I used this gauge recovery program and it works wonders to restore those blocky black squares like your are experiencing. I've seen a lot of people prescribe every thing from installing
the FSX repair disk to installing the FSX demo...well I am here to tell ya that this little utility (freeware) does the trick to restore the missing files that were accidentally deleted.

http://www.avsimrus.com/f/fsx-utilities-84/gauges-recovery-for-fsx-39772.html

As the of the most memorable Alka-Seltzer® ads use to say "Try it....you'll like it!!!"

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The Gauge Recovery thing from Avsimrus is much more than an Alka Seltzer: is a genial little program which has very quickly given me back some "smoke" effects that, for some reason, got lost in my sys. :applause::applause:


Thanks Richoday for your advice :salute:

Italo