Rocket Smoke

A rocket's smoke as a true volume: out of the pad's trench at lift-off, a column behind the climbing rocket, drifting in the wind.

• Out of the flame: carried down the jet, spreading and rising, lit by the flame and the sun.
• Down the trench: on a launch pad it rolls out of both ends of the flame trench.
• A trail that stays: a kilometre and more behind the rocket, leaning with the wind.
• What burns shows: a solid booster's smoke thick and white, kerosene's grey-brown, hydrogen's a little steam.
• Water and ice: the pad's deluge boils into white billows at lift-off, jets leave contrails, and high up the trail turns to ice.

For KSP 1.12.x. Needs Keystone 0.9 or later and Volumetric Explosions 0.8 or later.

Works on: Mac and Windows 11: tried. Linux: not run.

More pictures, every setting and how it works: on GitHub.