New smoke.exhaust effects

[bprice]

I realize that the specific locomotive settings have much to do with the appearance of the smoke/exhaust effects. The effects look great in some but there is way too much in others. Here are some shots with different locomotives.

DW 44CW Idle

DW 44CW throttle

SLI UP

3DT F7 Idle

3DT F7 Throttle

BLW F3 Idle

BLW F3 Throttle

[baldwin]

This also uses the effects section for position and orifice size labelled as Exhaust, with these four lines giving the amount at different settings
DieselSmokeEffectInitialMagnitude( 0.2 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxMagnitude( 1.8 )
DieselSmokeEffectInitialSmokeRate( 0.2 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxSmokeRate( 2.1 )

[rdamurphy]

Yeah, working on that. There were some great improvements to the smoke and exhaust effects by James Collins, so the other sections that implement the smoke need some minor tweaking. You should see those made by the next experimental release.

Robert

[rdamurphy]

Fixed now, a slight calculation error, OK, a rather huge one, meant that the game was missing the upper limit.

Robert

[bprice]

Fixed now, a slight calculation error, OK, a rather huge one, meant that the game was missing the upper limit.

Robert

At least you found it before you got a visit from the EPA.

[rdamurphy]

Comparison, MSTS and OR:

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Robert

[bprice]

There are still some exhaust issues with the latest release with some locomotives. These shots are of a Diesels West GEVO in idle. The improvements in the steam effects in the last release are great.
Latest release 1/31

January 17 release

[bprice]

This is new.
I was running a diesel activity and one of the AI trains was an 844 excursion. The new steam effect on the AI train looked great.

After the AI passed the ES44 changed to steam.

[rdamurphy]

Yeah, that's a bug I've been working on, AI and static consists all use the same settings for smoke... Obviously, the first one it loads.

Robert