Nimrod smoke

[DarrenL]

George..

Picking up on the comment Dennis made.. the 3 gauges you list should go into the main gauges folder PLUS.. there should be a folder in the gauges folder named simshed which contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml. I know folk are dubious about using installers.. especially with older software. Can you check to see if there's a simshed folder in the main gauges folder and that it contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml

ATB

DaveB

Now that interesting as I don't have a simshed folder, or a nimrod_smoke.xml & the smoke works OK

Same here, no Simshed folder in the gauges folder, no nimrod_smoke.xml but it all works perfectly all gauges in the cockpit working, smoke when I push the noise maker lever forward.

PS. The only install I did was the initial installer released on the day followed immediately by the patch as I didn't install it until the patch was released.

[GHD]

George..

Picking up on the comment Dennis made.. the 3 gauges you list should go into the main gauges folder PLUS.. there should be a folder in the gauges folder named simshed which contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml. I know folk are dubious about using installers.. especially with older software. Can you check to see if there's a simshed folder in the main gauges folder and that it contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml

ATB

DaveB

Sorry Dave,

There is no Simshed folder in gauges.

In fact, I installed to a dummy folder so still have everything as installed.

These are the only folders created

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 Directory of H:\Downloads\FSX\Nimrod

21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          .
21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          ..
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Effects
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Gauges
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          SimObjects
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of H:\Downloads\FSX\Nimrod\SimObjects

19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          .
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          ..
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Airplanes
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of H:\Downloads\FSX\Nimrod\SimObjects\Airplanes

19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          .
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          ..
21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          Simshed Nimrod 2010
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

 Directory of H:\Downloads\FSX\Nimrod\SimObjects\Airplanes\Simshed Nimrod 2010

21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          .
21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          ..
21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          model.default
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          model.Falklands
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          model.MR1
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          model.MR2
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          model.MR2-cam
21/12/2010  19:09    <DIR>          model.R1
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          panel
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          sound
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          texture.40
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.Common
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.Falklands
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR1-Dovegrey
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR1-GreyWhite
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR1-Hemp
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-120
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-42
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-AR-Bluegrey
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-AR-Hemp
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-Bluegrey
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.MR2-Hemp
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.R1-Bluegrey
19/12/2010  14:30    <DIR>          Texture.R1-Hemp
               0 File(s)              0 bytes

I think having the gauges in the panel folder is preferable to them being in the FSX Gauges folder.

There are 4 smoke effects in the Effects folder which I have placed in FSX\Effects:

fx_MR2L_smoke_1.fx
fx_MR2L_smoke_2.fx
fx_MR2R_smoke_1.fx
fx_MR2R_smoke_2.fx
fx_Nimrodvclight.fx

[Patron7]

I have Gobs of smoke. Using an ATI Radeon 5800.

Bill

[DaveB]

Hi Guys..

No.. as I wrote in the last para of my last post, that folder is an artifact of an old beta (beta 2 by my reckoning) and has no impact on you seeing smoke or not. Having read DG's post, I deleted the folder and checked the Nimrod again and smoke remains. Just for info.. my system spec is:
WinXP SP3 32-bit
2GB Crucial Ballistix
Intel E8400
Nvidia (inno3D) 8800GTX/768mb DDR3 (nvidia 6.14.11.8122 dated 14.01.2009)
DX9c (4.09.0000.0904)
FSXAcc

ATB

DaveB

[TSR2]

No problems here, all the correct smoke:-

Intel QX6700
4GB RAM
Nvidia 8800 GTX
Win 7 Ultimate x64
FSXa