Increase amount of dust

[KokaKolaA3 394]

Hey, i recently i played a mission with a few friends on Takistan, as we got extracted with a helicopter, i thought it would be a lot more realistic if the helicopter would generate a lot more dust. 

I've seen Videos of helicopters landing in Afghanistan etc. sometimes the pilots can not even see the ground because of all that dust.

 

So my question is, is there a way to increase the amount of dust that vehicles generate when touching or hovering over the ground?

 

Any help would be appreciated!

[ineptaphid 6413]

This is something I have always wanted. Reading several books from chinook and apache pilots in Afghanistan-the problem of "brown out" where the dust clouds thrown up is so thick it hampers landing is very common. Especially a problem if more than one chopper needs to land at once-the cloud thrown up by one impairs visibility for the other.

[KokaKolaA3 394]

This is something I have always wanted. Reading several books from chinook and apache pilots in Afghanistan-the problem of "brown out" where the dust clouds thrown up is so thick it hampers landing is very common. Especially a problem if more than one chopper needs to land at once-the cloud thrown up by one impairs visibility for the other.

So, i talked to ALIAScartoons, he said he has something like this planned. So we might see this in the future

[Grezvany13 64]

Although I don't know how to modify it, I did manage to figure out how it's currently defined.

 

1) You can set the effects for your vehicle with `rightDustEffect` and `leftDustEffect` in the CfgVehicles config

@see: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Particle_Effects:_Config_Parameters#Parameter:_rightDustEffect_.2F_leftDustEffect

 

2) You can find how to define new effects (or modify existing ones) in `a3\data_f\ParticleEffects\config.cpp` (core A3 files)

@see: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Particle_Effects

 

And I did notice some topics at the Terrain forums about how to define the type of particles on the terrains (eg. desert gives different dust than grass, and dry weather is different than wet ground from rain).

 

 

Please note; this is not the answer to your question, but hopefully some pointers to find one.