Car's don't usually produce much visible smoke. The smoke in the video looks like water.
"HC" racing cars etc. with very rich air-fuel ratio can produce noticeable black smoke under acceleration, but modern or modernish GTR cars doesn't seem to do that much.
Sometimes rally cars / high performance cars etc. start producing a bit of blue smoke under motor-braking, but that's just simply because it's been revved high for few races and the piston rings are starting to wear and thus burning oil.
As a Pinto owner I could give one more example, very often a good rally prepared Pinto can be seen making blue smoke (oil again) right after startup cause of worn / hardened valve guide rubber seals (or whatever in English).
But basicly I don't think these features are important in LFS, at least not yet.
Simply making a effect of every engine producing visible smoke would be just stupid.
And oh judging by the looks of current tire smoke I'm afraid the smoke wouldn't look that good.
First we need a proper engine and exhaust model, a proper particle system, world temperature and humidity and then we can start thinking about exhaust smoke
I would prefer to see a much more realistic engine and turbo model before we get exhaust smoke. Car's nowadays rarely smoke nowadays anyway (excluding diesels.). I think the only exception would be the Turboed cars, as turbo'd cars sometimes give a quick puff of blue smoke when coming onto boost, but this is usually from cars of the 80's/90's when they were a little less efficient.
+1. GTA 4 has to have the best car smoke in any game, and it wasn't even made for that. The tyre smoke wraps around the tyre, and the smoke 'follows' the car after a long burnout.... then pops after.
actually race cars can produce enough smoke when its a cold start like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... KqABw&feature=related
especially in the turbo race cars smoke can remain for a little more instead of the natural aspirated.another cool thing would be the black smoke from turbo cars,which is unburned fuel,and it caused either from letting the gas after a full boost or in the low rpms where you press fuel throttle to accerate,which means that the A/F is too rich,so smoke comes out of the exhaust.
But i'll have to agree with the other guys.This is not an urgent improvement,lets have temprature in lfs and other mechanical damage,and then smoke.
That's my opinion
My problem with smoke is that it means that the engine has been damaged (blue smoke, oil being burnt). But a nice backfire would be very nice on the GTR's, FOX, FO8, Turbo cars, UFR nd XFR