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Hi @EPellissier and @MagnanimousHippo ,
I'm trying to compile some wheel dust effects for our aircraft and I'm noticing that the compiled effects are behaving completely differently than what was observed in the editor.
From the compiled:
From the Editor:
Thank you for your help!
Hello @runshotgun
We have tested your effect and are not able to reproduce the issue. We had to edit the effect (its use of local vars) to integrate it so maybe that's not the ideal condition.
Can you please provide us with:
- your source package
- your compiled package
So we can check if compilation gives us the same result and compare behavior.
Regards,
Sylvain
We tested your compiled package on SU11, AAU1 and dev version of the game but were not able to reproduce the issue. The effect always behaved as in your second picture.
We also tried switching DX version and graphics settings.
Can you tell us if starting a flight with your aircraft mounted from community and then opening the effect in edition changes the behaviour of the effect spawned on your aircraft?
Also, if you can try to test your package on a different machine, it would be interesting to see if you have the same problem.
Regards,
Sylvain
Here is a short video of the process on my end. https://youtu.be/r6ytgrTPLAE
In the video, the aircraft was already present in the Community folder before loading the project. Only after opening the project and selecting the effect in the VFX editor does the effect swap to the correct one.
Loading the project from the menu (without the compiled package in the Community folder) will render the correct effects directly after loading in.
We have tried the package on multiple computers (in and out of beta) and the effects do not render correctly.
Hello @runshotgun
When the problem occurs, can you make sure your package is the only one in the Community folder, in case there's some package mounting issue on our side?
Also, can you search "wheel_dust.spb" in Tools->Virtual File System and make sure only p42-fox2 package is returned?
Regards,
Sylvain
Maybe the effect you created is correct but the settings in sim for the effect is not set to be full 100% like in the editor. Try increasing the effect size.
I know this setting from FSX/P3D but I can't find anything comparable in the sim settings.
Hi there,
I am not in the office right now but isn't the GUID you chose for your FX (DADE83A1-66B8-42C4-9528-D022C10127CB) the same as one of ours?
If that's the case I suppose our FX definition takes priority over yours - changing the GUID should solve the issue (but you will have to adapt your model XML too).
I'll double check this when in the office tomorrow.
Best regards,
Eric / Asobo
Thanks for answering!
Great path but DADE83A1-66B8-42C4-9528-D022C10127CB is unique
GUID used by other aircraft of the same size (for that effect, DustLanding) is B563B75A-F2F0-4F09-8617-BE9F173BC8FB
Worth noting that other effects in the same library compile properly so the issue seems to be specific to this effect.
Issue resolved here.
Turns out I manually copied an effect from another project and only changed the root GUID and not all the components.
Ended up having Chat GPT code a python script that compares all the effects files on all my projects to figure it out hahaha.
I cloned the effect in the vfx editor and the issue is resolved now.
Sorry for your time spent on this.
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