NOVA FS200 special effects

 

These effects are only available for the FS2002 version. There is a couple of important things you should know before making any macro using this new tool, as:
  • Effects are not scalable, so the scale you enter is meaningless.
  • Placing an effect using offsets will not work either, for example, place an smoke effect at offsets x=20, y=2
  • The only way to raise an effect of the ground is by selecting it position altitude in the scenery when inserting the macro into your scenery, see below more details on this.
  • Effects can not be controlled using any other features not available in this tool, as day/night automatic control, or start at a given distance from the aircraft.
  • The version comes with two types of effects, the fireworks effects and three smoke effects, you can use for homes and/or smoke stacks or chimneys. The Fireworks are the default effects from the standard FS2002 Microsoft package.
  • Your macro should have one effect only, and do not include any other tool on it.

The difference between the chimney effects is only its height and quantity of smoke.
As you can see, you need to enter the dates and time when the effect will be active in the scenery. It is a little confusing to understand how this dates and time works, so it may need a couple of tests from you to get them show properly.

The example on the picture above, will make the fireworks to show only the 23rd October, starting at 21:00 and ending at 21:30

This example, shows that the home chimney will be active every day of the year, from 09:00 AM to 19:00PM ( Box show 18:59)


I have realized that if your starting minute is greater than the ending minute, the effect will be only active 1 minute. If you enter a time as 09:30 to 11:00 this will not work properly, the effect will be active from 09:30 to 09:31.
You should never get problems if the starting minute is always smaller than the ending minute, so better use a time of 09:30 to 10:59 for this example.
Since effects can not be placed using offsets in a macro, it may be hard for you to place the smoke of a chimney at the right place as shown in the left home picture.

You can load the NOVAEXA40 macro to get more information about this macro, projected scale to be used is 0.25

If you ever have to make an example like this one, the best thing to do is to make the chimney the center of the entire macro, that is, chimney will be placed at coordinates x=0 and y=0.

This is the list of tools used in the house macro, as you can see, the chimney offsets are (0,0).
To make the smoke effect, you will need to make another macro and include in this macro ONLY the effect, load the NOVAEXA40S macro for more information. This means, you will use 2 macros to make the complete house with the smoke, and place them both at the same coordinates.
To place the chimney at the right altitude, proceed as follows:

  • Load FS2002 program and place the aircraft at the exact Latitude and longitude where the macro will be finally placed in the scenery.
  • Read the ground altitude in meters, for example, ground altitude is 70 meters.
  • Let's assume the top of the chimney is at 8 meters from the ground, so the base of the smoke must be placed there, or at an altitude of 70+8 = 78 meters from sea level.
  • Using your preferred scenery maker, as ASD or Airport, include the macro smoke at an altitude of 78 meters.
If you use the last option, At your own risk..... this will show a list with all effects files in your flight simulator 2002. If you don't see this option and file list is because you are either using FS2000 or your Nova setup options are not configured properly, see the path name you have in your main FS2002 folder.
To select an effect, just click over the select name from the list.
This option is given as it is, and without warranties  if it will work or not for all files, I know some effects will make hang up your FS2002....and others just they will not work at all.....and I can not do anything to fix this, sorry!