Trying to make a wreck have smoke and fire but only get smoke.

[golfpro1286 10]

So I want to have a C-130 wreck in my mission with a lot of smoke AND fire. So here is what I did and only got smoke, no fire...

in my init.sqf i placed this: BIS_Effects_Burn=compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\ca\Data\ParticleEffects\SCRIPTS\destruction\burn.sqf";

I then placed c-130 wreck and named it "c130" and in the init field: i=[c130,7,time,false,false] spawn BIS_Effects_Burn;

any thoughts as to why I am only getting smoke?

[opusfmspol 273]

I tried to recreate but got nothing by putting the spawn in the init of the vehicle. I moved it to the init.sqf after the compile, and got fire and smoke.

[golfpro1286 10]

Can you show me what you put in the init.sqf? and just to clarify it was all in the init.sqf and nothing in the vehicle init correct?

[opusfmspol 273]

I just put exactly what you had, but all in the init.sqf. I placed a player, placed a C-130 wreck called "c130". In the init.sqf was this:

BIS_Effects_Burn = compile preprocessFileLineNumbers "\ca\Data\ParticleEffects\SCRIPTS\destruction\burn.sqf";
i=[c130,7,time,false,false] spawn BIS_Effects_Burn;

and nothing in the vehicle init.

[golfpro1286 10]

Sweet man thanks, I will try this when I get back in front of my comp tonight!

[Joe98 90]

Place a burning fireplace on the map and place your wrecked aircraft on the top.

[opusfmspol 273]

I think the problem stemmed from the vehicle initializing before the init.sqf compiled the effect being spawned.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/6thSense.eu:EG#Order_of_Initialization

basically the vehicle initialized and spawned the effect; however the init.sqf hadn't initialized and compiled the effect yet.

[golfpro1286 10]

I think it may be worth mentioning that I am running this mission using ACE, I didnt think that would have an effect on this script but maybe it does. I placed both in the init.sqf to get it to work and still only got smoke.

[opusfmspol 273]

Might try a test in editor with no addons. Also, you do know that rain has an effect as well? (I dunno if you're using weather or not.)

[golfpro1286 10]

Might try a test in editor with no addons. Also, you do know that rain has an effect as well? (I dunno if you're using weather or not.)

Yeah I dont have any weather on, I may try it with no add-ons but I am not too concerned about this problem nearly as much as the other that you are helping me with lol.