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I am currently on a virtual round the world flight and heading towards the Kamchatka peninsula. There are a number of active volcanoes there and and want to be able to add smoke to add to the realism. I have already laid satellite images over the volcanoes. Does anyone know haw todo this?

It would best be handled by placing an effect or maybe many effects at the vent point for the volcano. Someone did some work for a few around the globe and I think a search at the Avsim file library would turn them up. All I can recall is the first name of the person, Kim.

Where would I find a suitable smoke effect?

Using FSDS you can easily place smoke where you want it. You could place it wit IS2 or you can go to the top of a volcano, sit you plane right where you want the smoke, write done you lat and lon. Then yo ucan make a small tirangle poly, go to current part properties, browse, choose the smoke you want (black, gray, red, whatever) and compile using the coords of the flight you just made while yo wee sitting atop the volcano. (Hope yo saved your flight).

Compile as a bgl and place the bgl in an active scenery folder or addon scenery\scenery. Put 2 or 3 there for lots of smoke. Bob

I don't have FSDS and can you explain what IS2 is?

Isn't there a method of doing this using SBX?

An effect is treated like a scenery object and can be placed using the Objects button.

IS2 is Instant Scenery 2. FSDS? don't have it? Get it. Much easier to learn than Gmax; can do much more with it than Sketch Up.