Class AircraftExhaustTrail

Dynamic exhaust trail and optional afterburner geometry for AircraftController.

The trail owns a separate dynamic SceneModel. It creates translucent tube segments behind the aircraft and updates their transforms from controller state each frame. When afterburner configuration is present, it also creates three nested flame layers that appear above the configured speed threshold.

Example

const exhaust = new AircraftExhaustTrail({
  scene,
  modelId: "aircraft",
  coordinateSystem: aircraftSceneModel.coordinateSystem,
  config: {
    forwardAxis: "-Z",
    exhaust: {
      offset: [0, -0.8, 0],
      trailLength: 42,
      trailSegments: 24
    },
    afterburner: {
      threshold: 0.7,
      length: 10
    }
  }
});

Constructors

constructor

Properties

afterburner afterburnerObjectIds axis maxForwardSpeed objectIds offset radius sceneModel segmentSpacing trailAdvection trailExpansion trailObjectIds trailSegments trailTether trailTransforms wander

Methods

update

Constructors

constructor

Properties

Readonlyafterburner

afterburner: AircraftAfterburnerConfig

Resolved afterburner config, or null when disabled.

ReadonlyafterburnerObjectIds

afterburnerObjectIds: string[] = []

Generated afterburner SceneObject IDs.

Readonlyaxis

axis: string

Local aircraft axis used as the forward direction.

ReadonlymaxForwardSpeed

maxForwardSpeed: number

Speed used to normalize trail/afterburner intensity.

ReadonlyobjectIds

objectIds: string[] = []

All generated SceneObject IDs.

Readonlyoffset

offset: Vec3

Aircraft-local exhaust emitter offset.

Readonlyradius

radius: number

Base trail radius.

ReadonlysceneModel

sceneModel: SceneModel

Generated dynamic SceneModel containing trail and flame geometry.

ReadonlysegmentSpacing

segmentSpacing: number

Target spacing between generated trail samples.

ReadonlytrailAdvection

trailAdvection: number

Fraction of emitter movement carried by existing samples.

ReadonlytrailExpansion

trailExpansion: number

Radius growth along the trail.

ReadonlytrailObjectIds

trailObjectIds: string[] = []

Generated trail SceneObject IDs.

ReadonlytrailSegments

trailSegments: number

Number of trail segments.

ReadonlytrailTether

trailTether: number

Tether strength pulling samples back toward the emitter path.

ReadonlytrailTransforms

trailTransforms: SceneTransform[] = []

Mutable transforms for trail segments.

Readonlywander

wander: number

Sideways trail curl amount.

Methods

update

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