Exhaust Flash

Creates brief flame bursts from exhaust pipes during engine operation, gear shifts, and rev limiter engagement. Achieved through rapid sprite cycling with random textures and scales.

Key Properties

• Flash Chance (0-1): Probability of flash per engine cycle. 0.2 default provides occasional flashes.
• Flash Duration: How long flash remains visible (default 0.05s). Actual duration randomized between 50%-150% of this value.
• Flash On Rev Limiter: Trigger flashes when engine hits rev limiter.
• Flash On Shift: Trigger flashes during gear changes.
• On Flash Event: Unity event triggered when flash occurs. Use for complementary effects (sound, camera shake).

Setup

Adding Quads

• Create two perpendicular Quads at exhaust location
• Remove colliders from quads
• Create material with emission-enabled shader (e.g. Particles/Standard Unlit) with Transparent rendering
• Material must have _MainTex and _EmissionMap properties
• Assign MeshRenderers to Mesh Renderers list

Assigning Textures

Random texture selected on each flash for variety.

• Assign flame textures to Flash Textures list
• Multiple textures recommended for visual variety

Adding Point Lights

Optional lights illuminate surroundings during flash.

• Create PointLight at exhaust location
• Disable the light initially
• Add to Flash Lights list

Methods

• Flash(): Trigger single flash with event
• FlashWithChance(): Trigger flash based on configured probability