Can I please have an opinion from someone else who has successfully (backed up first !) installed the Smoke Effects file that was uploaded, I think, for the second time in a week or so, and noticed any improvement ?
The ReadMe file seems to be a little vague, as when I tried doing what it (not edited or anything this time either) stated, and copied the Particles files (it just says "file", where, in my opinion, should read "folder") into c:\program files\Rail Simulator\assets\Kuju\RailSimulator\. I neglected to backup my original folder first, and had to go to a fair bit of trouble to get it back again without re-installing KRS, but thanks to a kind person on the Forums, it was OK after not too long. What I really did, now that I think about it, I just overwrote the entire original folder instead, and upon running KRS, I started my scenario I was working on, and discovered that the steam locos main engine unit bodies wouldn't dispplay at all. Only the tenders and the front coupling hooks and links.
I couldn't get it back again until going to considerable trouble, as I said above, but I now feel that the ReadMe file itself should have been clearer in the extreme, as this could mean the difference between a huge headache, if you forget to backup the Particles folder first, as I did, and enjoying a difference to the smoke effects. To me, after I selected the files in the downloaded Particles folder, and copied them all to the original particles Folder (after backing it up
) and deleted the Blueprints.pak file, THEN started KRS up, and went to the freight yard to checkout the two Black 5s, I was delighted to actually see them there as usual. BUT, this time, the smoke coming out of the chimneys looked a little odd, with a darker shade of grey in an odd-looking shimmering ball, right at the top of the chimney, and which wouldn't disappear or change when I got the locos moving up to 20 mph or so. This wasn't quite what I expected to see, at all, and the original smoke was far better, I can honestly say. Try it for yourself, and see what you think of it, and, I'd really like to know how you feel, and whether anything has improved or not over the original smoke effects supplied by Kuju. I think you also need to be totally sure you don't remove the Textures folder inside the original Particles folder, which may have been deleted when I overwrote the original. If this is indeed right, just copy the new, downloaded files inside the Particles folder, to the original Particles folder, after backing it up first, and it should be fine, but again, check the results, to see if you REALLY like them, and if not, just delete the Particles folder and rename the copy back to Particles, and you'll be happy, hopefully.Regards...
Jim McDermott
