[BB25187]

All,

Sorry I didn't connect to the forum during the past few days. In the mean time I fixed the points raised by gpz:
- Regarding the instance of the Random class, this was actually a mistake: it was not even used in my patch - I thus simply removed it). I attach the corresponding version of the patch.
- I also removed most of the comments
I will now try the patch modified by gpz and let you know my feeling.

Regards

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•  smokesteam_fogwind_v3.zip (2.07K)
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[BB25187]

Peter,

I applied your patch on top of mine, using a revision #2360. The smoke is OK, but the movements of the skydome look now erratic. The link below points to a video which shows this bizarre effect:

http://www.dailymoti...-perkins_travel

Regards

[gpz]

Yes, looks like the sky wind code uses the total time as an input for a constant wind.
I have committed your patch as r2366, smoke fading in the fog looks really nice!

[ATSF3751]

Im really liking the new improvements to the smoke and steam to steam locomotives and diesels. It looks really real and a lot more realistic.

Thanks

Brandon

[captain_bazza]

If you will pardon the pun, as an interested modeller, these smoke and steam effects improvements are going in the right direction.

Thank you,
Bazza.

[ATW]

The new smoke wind affect is amazing!!! Great Job :pleasantry:

Is it possible for the future for tunnels to have wind direction effects?

[ATSF3751]

One thing I do not like is how the smoke comes out in little balls of smoke in the beginning and there are 2 of them. Just my opinion!

Brandon

[gpz]

ATSF3751, on 29 July 2014 - 06:25 PM, said:

One thing I do not like is how the smoke comes out in little balls of smoke in the beginning and there are 2 of them. Just my opinion!

Is it after the recent changes, or it was there originally? Which locomotive have you seen this at?

[copperpen]

The two streams of smoke have been present from the beginning of the new particle emissions code, but is much more visible if smaller orifice settings are used. The picture shown is using X 2369 and there are two smoke emission streams. This happens with any steam engine, and I have seen it on some diesels.

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[gpz]

There is a code piece in MSTSSteamLocomotiveViewer.PrepareFrame function, where a "pulse" variable is being switched to either 0.25 or 1. This variable alters the steam output volume eventually, which the output speed depends on. I assume this could be a candidate for the reason. But this is rdamurphy's code, he could debug it.