v3.0 update for SU10
The PBK Effects Library is released for scenery developers to add a bit more life to their scenery packs.
Initially the pack is small and contains five Smoke effects (small, medium and large, XL and XXL), two camp fires and a chopping block and axe and a cooling tower.
I have delibrately not connected the smoke effects to visible simobjects so the developer can position the smoke effects anywhere they like. The medium/large smoke effect is ideal for chimneys and the small effect is suitable for campfires/bbqs.
The smoke effects are named:
pbk_smoke_S, pbk_smoke_M and pbk_smoke_L; pbk_smoke_XL and pbk_Smoke_XXL are available as simobjects
the scenery objects are
pbk-campfire-lit, pbk-campfire-smoulder, pbk-chopping-block and pbk-cooling-tower
Developers: just drop the library into the community folder and the objects will be selectable in the SDK under the scenery or simobjects dropdowns
Users: just drop the library into the community folder and remove old copies of the pbk-effects or pbk_effects libraries
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Write a reviewRoloBach
Many thanks for your excelent work. It is very useful to my developements. You deserve the donation I've made.
bstikkel
Photosbykev 7 month(s) ago
it's an idea I've had for a while 😊 Kev
bstikkel 7 month(s) ago
O, great! Keep enjoying your develloping work!
PSVwally
Can you ellaborate a bit more about how this is in comparisson with the 'we love vft' packs?
Photosbykev 7 month(s) ago
The I Love VFR mods are devleoped to place smoke etc onto existing locations. My mod is a library for scenery developers to use in their own scenery mods
YMA555
Just wondering if these effects could be turned upside down and then be used for waterfalls .e. Victoria Falls, Niagara falls, Angel Falls etc? Would then look like water spray falling downwards.
Ginete
Txx!
ChrisPiAviation
Is it possible to add black smoke?
johnwalker 1 year(s) ago
Yeah! what about black smoke !
Nethiuz
Thank you, easy to use smoke for my scenery.
callsign1065
any tips for me, i've insert the campfire as object in the scenery and add your smoke effect over there. But it doesn't work. What should i do wrong?
Kalle49
great addon
JLR29--DELETED
Works Perfect!!Thanks!!
Misfit79
Question for you - is it possible to have a day/night cycle switch in the fire and smolder fx? Before fx were available I made my fires with blender and a glow that would turn off at dawn and turn on at dusk. This is not a feature request I am just curious. Of course if you wanted to do something like that..... lol
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
I think in the last update emissive textures were enabled so it should be possible
Misfit79 2 year(s) ago
Thats interesting, I have one scenery that probably has about 60 firepits (campgrounds) i wonder what the framerate hit would be between my simple blender glow vs the fx. Probably better to only use the fx version sparingly I would imagine?
diditester
Thank you very much for the update. Splendid project, especially the cooling tower work together with Michel.
nbrich1
Nice work Kev.. Great stuff. Scenery effects looks amazing.
gvogele
Hi, i can see onl if very near, shoud be 50 km
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
already working on increasing the range for the next release
michelvp
In fact LOD0 only is OK, smoke XXL is not visible from far and can be higher more than x1000 feet as real. Thanks again.
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
I'll recheck the range when I get a moment. I thought it was set around 10Km but could be wrong. Kev
Misfit79
great addon! smoke has been a bitch to add for two years so hats off lol!
diditester
Hallo Kev,
interesting project, I found it here today. It would be splendid if you could realize big white clouds of water for the excellent cooling towers by michelvp. Working cooling towers would be a nice feature for MSFS.
best regards
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
added for the SU7 update
michelvp
Very good idea, i wait it for cooling tower, thanks.
michelvp 2 year(s) ago
You' re great, thanks a lot.
DNBOF
Hey Kev,
Really nice, easy to use, especially for someone who doesn't have much patience with the dev mode in sim.
Any chance you'd consider adding a bunch of much larger steam plumes/smoke plumes (white through to belching black muck) ? I ask as I'm thinking of volcanos. Not mad ash cloud eruptions, just normal venting/steam etc. Would be nice to add them as a scenery to some of the active vents around the world.
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
I'm thinking of adding a larger xxl cloud for cooling towers which will probably fit nicely.
Kev
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
released today DNBOF 😊
DNBOF 2 year(s) ago
Good job, thank you. Grabbing that to play with.
edpru
Hello. Have you tried to track the time of day, and even more interesting - certain days and months of the year to use the effect?
Photosbykev 2 year(s) ago
I haven't yet. When Asobo give us emissive materials for the effects it will probably be worth revisiting them
edpru 2 year(s) ago
Yes, I also tried to track at least by temperature, so that the smokes could be done correctly according to the time of year, but somehow I didn't see how ranges could be done, although there are degrees. And through the external code, it's somehow not that.