Effect Module place off ground

[Victim9l3 11]

I've tried finding a way to make the smoke and/or fire effect module off the ground but have not succeeded. It's ridiculous to have smoke come up from the ground if the vehicle isn't touching the ground. Some examples:

-If I want the second story of a building to be on fire or have smoke coming from damaged sections of the buildings roof.

-I have a mission with a damaged Mohawk/Merlin. If I want the blades or engines to smoke I can't.

-Helicopters have wheels and skids that you can't selectively damage. So you can't retract landing gear or anything. So the smoke must start higher.

I think you have enough examples. I have tried manually entering a height by editing a mission with notepad, but effects still start on ground.

Any ideas? Thanks.

[alky_lee 280]

I would try using the attachto command to attach the module to the vehicle. There are parameters that can be set to position the position.

[Victim9l3 11]

Thanks I'll look into it. That might be a good idea but there is still a problem when it comes to buildings. Besides fire and smoke coming from a building, smoke grednade effects might be useful to place on top of buildings or things where helicopters might need to pick someone up. Throwing a smoke grenade doesn't work. Bi hasn't figured out that grenades don't fall through floors or walls in real life. Gredades (people a lot of times too) go right through walls. So having effects with placeable height is a must. If bi reads this maybe they can figure it out.

Any other ideas. I'll try the one alky_lee said but it still leaves most options still unresolved.