Some live activity 
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Downwash effect updated for SU5 compatibility. To fix it in R44, copy
Downwash.spb file into
\rsp-r44\VisualEffectLibs\touchingcloud\touchingcloud-effect-downwash\
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That downdraft effect is pretty cool with the chopper. Iāve been wondering when someone would do that. Seems like thereās a lot of possibilities with these new effects. Looks great.
Now all we need is the ability for the downdraft to blow and bend grass back when we take off and land in a field or grass airstrip. That would be a great effect.
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great idea, but there is no way to edit wind variables, even with simconnect. maybe some day such thing will be added natively.
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So is that just an emissive tied to the smoke effect or can we do light/emissives as an effect themselves? I want to do some effects with lighting that controlled by a pilot such as turning on and off hangar lights by switches or proximity. Is that possible before I try too hard at figuring it out?
Actually I meant flame animation can be created, but emissive materials does not work with effects yet (it does not glow). They are going to implement it soon tho
Attaching actual light source to the effect is not possible and not sure is planned, but you can try to attach light to the simobject instead and add some visibility logic.
v0.9 Aerobatics and water drop effects updated for SU6
Downwash and others still broken. Hope hotfix will be released soon, or at least workarounds explained.
Discovered issues so far:
- CTD if you load project XML with VisualEffect.EmitterList nodes presented. Solution: VisualEffect.EmitterList should be replaced with EmitterList in text editor, parameters removed (including GUID) manually or by saving project once, otherwise effect will be not compiled.
- when you clone effect, generated _edition file does not contain data about nodes positions
- when you clone effect, material of emitters reset to random GUID (not fixed since SU4)
- CTD when you are trying to spawn effect with both contact point and node options empty (was spawn on camera previously)
- wrong effect placement when using Vector3 for velocity/position - replace Vector3 with LocalDirection
- wrong effect placement when using OFFSET modifiers for Asobo_GT_FX effect template, no workaround found
- if effect GUID already presented in community, it may stop react on editor changes at some point. game restart is only found solution
- global coordinates system acting weird - before it was magnetic north/east, now it earth axis without respect of globe curve.
Hi thealx2901! Do you have any idea as to how to replicate the engine blur effect using the node editor? 
I am completely out of ideas on this one :).
I think itās not possible yet. At least when I apply āheatā material to the effect, quads rendered as black frames instead of actual blur
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Hi, Iām trying to make a large steam effect like the one we see over nuclear power plantās cooling tower.
As everyone know, currently itās only possible to put an effect on a SimObject, so I did on a simple invisible cube.
The effect itself is working fine, but the big problem is I need to get very close (less than 1 NM) for the effect to actually start.
Iāve set āDistanceToNotAnimateā to 50000 in the SimObjectās sim.cfg, and the same value in the effect itself (FX editor), but no luck.
Once the effect is effectively started however I can move far from it and it stays alive.
But once it dies, I have to come very close again to start it up.
I donāt think itās a problem on my own effect as I see the same behaviour with the AI contrail effects: they start when you are very close from the AI.
So I guess itās an issue from the MSFS engine.
Make your invisible cube large. Like 500m large. Donāt forget to add multiple LODs, even if they link to the same gltf file. You can see how I do it in We Love VFR Region 2 add-on.
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Thanks a lot for your reply, Iām gonna have a look 
Hi Marko, i have included your wonderful work in my smokes configurator app, i wouldān be possible without your helpful tutorials!
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Thatās really serious approach, great job!
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What if the aircraft doesnāt have an .XML file associated with it? Iāve noticed that some of the commercial aircraft seem to be missing the .XML file.
Is it legacy aircraft (*.MDL)? they are not compatible with new effect system.
also aircraft can load XML file from another folder by fallback
No, itās MODERN aircraft that just donāt happen to contain .XML files. (Could be to prevent the user from making unauthorized modifications or theft.)
Would be nice to be able to stream smoke (from my F-15I), on demandāsince I canāt stream bullets or bombs!
Okay, got it. Files encrypted then - I donāt think it is possible to add custom XML in this case.
Only solution I can think of is use SDK FX editor to attach effect(s) to the aircraft manually, but you need to do it manually each flight.
Hey, it has been a while since the last comment on this topic, is this project discontinued, I really want to know if the tire smoke mod still exists