Dynamic diesel smoke

[cjbarnes5294]

Trying to get the blasted thing to work for Matt, I noticed an awful lot of mistakes in my draft above, so apologies if you've been following and attempting to use the code. This is the current state of the code:

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--thanks to nschichan for documentation on the usage of require(), see: http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=366&t=136148#p1687192

--original_Script is a string variable that we assign the file path between two quotation marks " "
original_Script = "Assets/RSC/Class52Pack01/RailVehicles/Class_52/AP/Scripts/c52-main.lua";
require(original_Script);

-- store legacy functions before redefining them, although I think you'd only need to redefine Initialise and Update for particles
old_Initialise = Initialise;
old_Update = Update;


function Initialise()
   old_Initialise()
   --turn on and off the various emitters as required

   Call("BeginUpdate");
end

function Update(time)
   old_Update(time)
   --code to control the particles, you could include some of the ideas from earlier in this thread
end

--extra function for turning on emitters without needing to retype the long call function
function EmitterOn(name)
   Call(name..":SetEmitterActive", 1);
end

--same as the above, but for turning emitters off instead
function EmitterOff(name)
   Call(name..":SetEmitterActive", 0);
end


Chris

[deltic009]

Thanks very much for all of your help thus far folks, I'm currently at work but shall hopefully give this a whirl and confirm it's working (no reason it shouldn't as Chris has tested it out) and then we're part way along the track, as it were.

I'm not striving for ultra realism, but would just like it to be some way better than what we currently have.

Cheers Chris again.

[deltic009]

Well hello everybody, just wanted to share in the very latest update to the Class 52 pack - a few niggles with the exhaust to iron out but I'm very happy, and VERY grateful to Chris for his time in doing this. I have already gone a bit filthier on his textures than they were intially, now if only I can eradicate that blank bit of nothingness between full clag and running exhaust...

http://www.youtube.com/v/GKZuGo1Dp4o

[Nobkins]

Nice work. Enjoyed watching that.

[JamesLit]

That's beautiful, well done, chaps.

As for the gap - sounds like one emitter is going off before the other one goes on? Perhaps have a look at the triggers for the different emitters to make sure they're as they should be? Just an idea.

[deltic009]

That's beautiful, well done, chaps.

As for the gap - sounds like one emitter is going off before the other one goes on? Perhaps have a look at the triggers for the different emitters to make sure they're as they should be? Just an idea.

Having spoken to Chris since I posted this, it seems my crude attempt to limit particle production (as it killed my system) may have caused the breakage - I'm armed with anether method to reduce particles that hopefully doesn't break things.