Smoke emitted by steam and diesel locomotives

[johanno4]

Hi

I am using Open Rails stable version 1 and for me it gives new life to MSTS. Love it! I have one question however:

In Open Rails smoke out of steam locomotive chimneys is very feeble, whilst diesel locomotives emit thick black smoke. Please see the attached screenshots. Both are however appearing normal in MSTS.

Is there a way I can fix this anomaly in OR?

Thanks for any ideas in this regard.

[baldwin]

Both use the same smoke ace files as MSTS. There are several available.
The steam smoke/steam plume still needs work done to get it looking better, and is controlled by the throttle and reverser settings. If the engine is on low throttle settings there will not be much visible anyway.

Diesel is controlled by the throttle setting and a some of lines in the eng file
DieselSmokeEffectInitialMagnitude( 1.7 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxMagnitude( 3.5 )
DieselSmokeEffectInitialSmokeRate( 1.4 )
DieselSmokeEffectMaxSmokeRate( 4.8 )

Smaller figures give less smoke

[Vince]

Stable version 1? What's that? As far as I know there is no version 1 yet and I follow the OR forum at Elvas Tower. (that's where most of the developers of OR post and answer questions)

The smoke has been fixed a while now in the experimental versions, somewhere around x2700 or so as I recall. Some engines require tweaking the engine file smoke parameters though.

I use nothing but the experimental to be sure any changes are ok with my route under construction and I've never had a +real+ problem.
I'd suggest you log in at Elvas Tower Open Rails Forum as there was a lengthy thread on the smoke subject about a month ago.
http://www.elvastower.com/
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regards,

[eric]

Vince, the stable release on the download page doesn't indicate a version number, just a date of April 01. (oh the irony)

However, Release 1.0 is going to be upon us before you know it...