Adds engine startup smoke effects to PMDG DC-6.
If you are a radial engine lover, you might have missed the characteristic smoke show display those engines put on at engine start. This add-on will add those for you so that you can enjoy the startup process of this great product by PMDG even more.
Installation:
Drag and drop the extracted folder to your community folder.
Sonosusto
Love this! Makes the start look a lot better overall. great work here
Andre974
Thanks for adding some hard needed smoke to the Six!
As a suggestion, would it be possible to couple the smoke to the engine oil temps. Meaning more smoke when it's colder outside (oil temp is at ambient temp at start) and then slowly dissapearing when the oil heats up? Once the engines are warmed up, the smoke would disappear and not effect framerates.
Imenes author
That is a great suggestion! Should be possible, I will look into it!
2 years ago
weeklongbelt311
Was always impressed when seeing that startup smoke when sitting in 4-radial engine airliner!
So was glad to install this relevant addon... I think correctly
Now when starting engine 1 I can't see any smoke through the cockpit side window..
Have I anything missed?
Thanks for your advise!
Imenes author
Hey! The smoke gets blown backward, so make sure you can see behind the engine, or quickly switch to an external camera to confirm if it is working or not.
2 years ago
CaptBlackHole108
Mod is Great. Loved watching the R2800s starting up in a cloud of smoke. Even bound the Boost, Mags ext to buttons so I could start them while in external view.
I would have giving 5 stars, however I've been getting CTDs like somebody else mentioned here. Crashes tend to be random; sometimes on loading, sometimes on the ground and can happen with any plane. Tried it with just the DC6 and the smoke mod in my Community folder but still got seemingly random CTDs. Every so often I could get through a session without a crash but rarely. Also worth noting, the crashes never happened during the actual DC6 engine start.
As soon as I removed the mod my system was stable again. Tried it many times with and without various other mods in the community folder but no success.
Please, if there is any simple fix u can think of let me know! I really miss it. Either way, thanks for the effort. Its greatly appreciated!
Imenes author
Hey, thanks for your report! I haven't identified why it happens, as it seems isolated to specific users/configurations. I did start the work on rewriting the whole of the external XML to hopefully bypass this issue, but when done I'll need to ask users with CTDs like yourself to test it out. I'll tag you when I will be done with that.
2 years ago
geandily
Gives me a massive FPS drop as soon as the smoke starts to display. It looks great but I had to uninstall. I am on SU10 (DC6 my main plane)
Imenes author
Do you start all engines at once, or does just one engine which is just two effects, give you the FPS drop? Haven't tested with SU10 myself, they might still need to optimize the beta version before it's ready for release.
2 years ago
CanPilotJ
Great mod. Adds a lot of realism to the DC6! Any interest in doing this mod for the Beechcraft D18? 😊
yamarider
not sure why but i had crashes after downloading.
Imenes author
Interesting, haven't heard any reports yet, when does the sim crash for you?
2 years ago
SJK
I like your mod a lot thank you very much. Would you please make one for the JU 52?
FreakyD
Love it! Thanks
FrontSideBus
Awesome! Really poor that PMDG hasn't done this themselves though!
Hunter555
awesome, thank you !
will other people (who have same plane + smoke effect from you) get to see smoke from others who are starting up as well? if not, wopuld it technically be possible to have that added ? <3
Imenes author
That is a good question, not sure how multiplayer handles this, but most likely not. Would have to explore this a bit more.
2 years ago
fcmusician
Excellent. Very nice touch. I fly the heck out of that plane.
Vizipok
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AVCORP
So cool what you did. It add a nice touch of realism to this beautiful classic plane. Thanks a lot.
darshonaut
thanks for making this. Better download fast 😉