Missing Nose Vapor Effect

lmeirose · Post by **lmeirose** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 6:09 pm

Hello All,

I just had a quick question for all of you. I recently downloaded V2.4 of the Glowingheat SR-71 for FSX (I'm running it on a Windows 10 operating system) and I've really been enjoying flying it. I've noticed, however, that when I perform steep climbs or turns with the aircraft, the vapor effects on the nose appear to be displaying black squares (implying they might be corrupted or missing):

Have any of you run into this issue? Is there a fix for this? Is there anything I can do on my end to resolve the problem?

Thanks very much for all of your help!!

lmeirose · Post by **lmeirose** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 4:48 pm

Just a quick update. I opened and viewed the SR-71's effects (.fx) files via Notepad. As it turns out, the problem was that the effect "fx_Glowingheat_SR71_vapor3.fx" effect that controls the nose vapor was attributed to the effects texture "fx_Aa-Con.bmp", which doesn't exist in the FSX "Effects" "texture" folder. The other two vapor effects are attributed to the "fx_1.bmp" (which is one of FSX's default effects textures for smoke/vapor trails, right?), and they appear to work fine; so here's what I did to fix the problem:

- I copied the "fx_1.bmp" effects texture to create a second copy of it

- Next, I renamed the "fx_1.bmp - Copy" effects texture as "fx_Aa-Con.bmp"

Problem solved!!

DBushell · Post by **DBushell** » Thu Jun 15, 2017 6:21 pm

Hi,

Glad you fixed it, I believe that fx file is included in the installer, but will need to check.

David.

af120835 · Post by **af120835** » Sun Jan 07, 2018 9:37 am

Hi,

I have the same problem as the OP, but I can't get the fix that was posted above to work.

Can anyone advise?

Cheers.

DBushell · Post by **DBushell** » Wed Jan 10, 2018 7:01 pm

Hi,

If you have my previous SR-71 installed copy "fx_1.bmp" from the effects/textures folder and rename it as "fx_Aa-Con.bmp"

or email me support at glowingheat.co.uk

af120835 · Post by **af120835** » Mon Jan 15, 2018 7:55 pm

Thanks for getting back, I tried that but it still doesn't work, the vapour still appears as in the OPs post (i.e. black)

See attached screen grab.

DBushell · Post by **DBushell** » Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:49 pm

Please email me support@glowingheat.co.uk and I will send you all textures for the effects.

David.

af120835 · Post by **af120835** » Fri Feb 02, 2018 8:22 pm

Will do, thanks

Glowingheat.co.uk

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