Cant get rid of smoke effect.

Tahnks to twisted and Magicpanda, I could attach smoke to a vehicle.

Now the problem is to turn off that smoke once its not needed anymore.

I tried the following :

- destroying the vehicle (setDamage),

- removing the vehicle (deleteVehicle),

- removing the smoke (deleteVehicle),

- destroying the smoke (setDamage),

- all above, but with detaching the smoke from the vehicule first,

- shouting mean words at the smoke,

- eating chips while scratching my head,

- losing a couple ranked games on LoL.

Nothing seems to kill that damn smoke. To think a couple hours ago I was fighting to create it ...

How exactly did you create the smoke? deleteVehicle on the smoke object should be enough.

heres what happens when a vehicle cant move anymore :

	_smoke = "test_EmptyObjectForSmoke" createVehicle (position _this);
_smoke attachTo [_this,[0,0.15,0]];
sleep (20 + random (25));

_this setDamage 1;
detach _smoke;
_smoke setDamage 1;
deleteVehicle _smoke;
sleep 75;
deleteVehicle _this;

No more vehicule, but the smoke stays (apparently ad vitam eternam).

Hmm.. They really need to fix BIS_fnc_burn or whatever it was.

Could you use hideobject on the smoke and enable simulation false?

Failing that you could move the smoke to 0,0,0 (The corner of the map)

I could probably, but Id rather avoid that. Im trying to do a Domination-esque mission, and having dirty remnants piling up could cause bad things.

If you only need it a short time, use the smokeshell it only burns for about 30 secs.

Unfortunately smoke shells effect dont look like like somethings burning.

I guess ill have to wait for an update.

Well here is what I did to fix this problem for me.

To create:

_sh = [2779.45,1736.67,143.966];
_col = [204,204,0];
_c1 = _col select 0;
_c2 = _col select 1;
_c3 = _col select 2;

_source = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal _sh;
_source setposasl _sh;
_source setParticleParams [["\A3\data_f\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal", 16, 7, 48], "", "Billboard", 1, 20, [0,0,0],
			  [0.2, 0.1, 0.1], 0, 1.277, 1, 0.025, [0.1, 2, 6], [[_c1, _c2, _c3, 0.2], [_c1, _c2, _c3, 0.05], [_c1, _c2, _c3, 0]],
                         [1.5,0.5], 1, 0.04, "", "", _sh];
_source setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0,0,0], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.1], 0, 0, 10];
_source setDropInterval 0.03;
_source2 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal _sh;
_source2 setposasl _sh;
_source2 setParticleParams [["\A3\data_f\ParticleEffects\Universal\Universal", 16, 12, 8, 0], "", "Billboard", 1, 20, [0, 0, 0],
                   	   [0.2, 0.1, 0.1], 0, 1.277, 1, 0.025, [0.1, 2, 6], [[_c1, _c2, _c3, 1], [_c1, _c2, _c3, 0.5], [_c1, _c2, _c3, 0]],
                          [0.2], 1, 0.04, "", "", _sh];
_source2 setParticleRandom [2, [0, 0, 0], [0,0,0], 0, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0.2], 0, 0, 360];
_source2 setDropInterval 0.03;
_smokes = [_source,_source2];

Then to delete:

{
deletevehicle _x;
} foreach _smokes;

NOTE: _sh would equal some posasl and _col being the (rgb) color of the smoke. Hope this helps.

~dcthehole