You all do realize that with this we can add guns/flares and have even more steps towards combat? Just visual effects, but all add coolness.
Sludge/Razgriz,
Dunno, if this is the correct thread to post this, but, I have already tried the Gun/Rocket effects on the default F/A-18 and they work quite cool. I had taken the effects from another aircraft (Cobra heptr, I think, but am not sure now) and then added them to the effect folder in FSX.
Then I had linked the Gun firing to landing light, and rocket firing to smoke in the aircraft.cfg. A little bit of tweaking to find the correct attach points, and voila I had them working.
The guns effects would show up as tracer fire balls which would fire from both sides of aircraft nose and would be visible up to 1.5 nm or so. If you shot them on ground, the fire balls would be visible on ground too. Ditto with the rockets.
I still have the modded cfg file with me, if you guys need it.
The beauty of the setup was, if you were in multiplayer session, and your partner had the same cfg as you, both of you would see the effects.
This mod was a great help, while we trained for dog fights and stuff.
The only draw back we faced was when someone else came into the session, and his cfg file wasn't modded. In such cases, sometime the effects would reverse. I mean, while your guns (landing light) would be off, but the other person would see them as 'guns firing', and this would get distracting sometimes (when we were not doing ACM training, for example).
Just thought, I must share this with you guys.
