Hey bro, nice mod but Im struggling to see what the hype is about, I'm testing and Im barely seeing any effects compared to the ones in your video.

do my graphical settings need to be on ultra or something? I am only using your VFX mods

@HappyRooster007 If flare effects are brighter, I'd need to find a way to disable that to use this, because I already got rid of another flare mode that made them too bright.

Amazing that this mod creates better explosions AND better performance than vanilla. Consistent 1 more fps than vanilla in my YAAB tests, with the whole Photon suite (Photon VFX and Photon VFX - Smoke).

Bravo!

this may not be compatible with SOG Prairie Fire. specifically the White Phos & Flamethrowers.
when using WP or flamethrower with Photon VFX mod on, our FPS tanks down to a powerpoint slide
can anyone else confirm?

@Wenza thx !! Your mods ROCKSSS man! Keep the good work, cheers =)

@AlanKvA
server + clientside

Hi @Wenza, your mod is client side only, or for dedicated server need server+clients mod? thx

Hi, I think that flares are too much bright. Could you make a vanilla version?

anyone experience a refract floating when in battle? i mean a mirror like effect or heat haze or what you call that. how did you fix them?

awesome mod Wenza, I'm now using your mod instead of blastcore murr edition. Just one little suggestion: less smoke and a little more sparks when APFSDS hitting metal. Thanks for your work anyway.

Hey, I've got an idea that could make this mod feel much more realistic.
So with both vanilla and this mod smoke and dust are mostly gray.
If you could re-texture or replace the gray dust with brown dust I think that would make a night and day difference. As it would give the effect of actual dirt getting kicked up like we see in real life and blastcore murr edition for example
keeping some gray is probably a good idea but making the overwhelming gray into an overwhelming light earthy brown may work wonders for this mod!

@Master Gardener
I haven't made any changes to these effects, and they seem to be working as expected in testing.
I'll push an update and see if that fixes the issue.

With the last one or two updates I believe the spark effects are missing for at least hand grenades and UGL grenades.

Will get right on testing this
Thanks Wenza

New update! Blastwave effects have been reworked, and should be much less 'intrusive' now.
Some lighting effects were fixed.
I would very much appreciate any feedback about the new blastwave effects!

@Dutch
Odd, I only changed one small value for one particular explosion type in the last update... I'll take a look and see if I can replicate the issue
Can you detail me which munitions / explosion effect this was happening on?

I think your latest update has created some strange refractions.. They're large distortions of the screen, usually linked to anything I guess that's supposed to show godrays?

@Juãn
No, I have not made any changes to the SOG explosion effects

Is it compatible with SOG? I tried going through the comment section but couldnt find anything about if it is or isnt

This is best "blastcore" mod. Thanks for that.

bro, you are a beast! congrats!!!

You should be proud, man! Mod slaps! Thanks for all you do.

10k+ subs - I am very astonished and eternally grateful for everyone's support for this, I can't thank you all enough! Cheers for all the feedback and kind comments!

I tested it now some rounds with blastcore: works very good together and gives some improvments in light, blast effects etc. Didn't notice any friction now. Also no performance lost. I realy like it

(thumbs up)

Thanks for your answer, Wenza.
May be you can make a global variable that we can set by script to turn it on/off.
But don't take me so serious, your mod is amazing and i'm installing it in my server right now.

@Donnovan
At the moment, you need to remove the refraction pbo file to disable the refraction effect, I don't yet know how to set it up so it uses addon options. I will be releasing each effect addon individually soon to make it easier.

Can i turn off the refraction effect in mod configurations or changing a variable?

ah cool thanks bud!

@GRAYFOX
Both server and client must run the mod for it to synch in multiplayer

@wenza question for you about your mods. are these server dependent or clientside?

Would love to see small arms FX as well

@Thatch
I may look into it (no promises yet) but if I do, it will be a separate addon for Photon, like my Smoke effects.

Any chance to see that as an expansion?

@Thatch
This mod does not change small arms impact fx

@Axle
Should be fine with Enhanced Missile Smoke

Great mod, does this also effect small arm impact FX?

sorry @wenza it turns out it was the map itself. oddly.

Is it compatible with enhanced missile smoke?

I am also unsure, but its only happened recently with this being one of the only mod updates.
Will throughly check later, and get back to you (just wanted to quickly check with you JIC)

@[CTG] Maj. Eagle
I can't seem to e able to replicate your bug on initial testing - can you specify which map you are running, and if you are using any other mods? For lighting, this mod only changes explosion effects and a few 'weapon fired' effects by altering brightness and colour, so I'm unsure how it could affect general lighting on terrains.

Has the effect on which lights are rendered changed? In buildings, it appears as though lights dim when looking downwards???

Update released, new demo video is up - watch the original on youtube for best quality
(my gpu was having a cry recording, and compression through youtube then steam is crappy)

@Wenza You are a legend. I have a low spec PC and notice some fps drop when zoom at explosion - but this is my problem.

@Sam
I have an update for spark fx inbound which I think you will like ;)

@Wenza I meant large amount of sparks on vehicle explosions. IRL this effect is especially noticeable when AA vehicle explode. You can watch on youtube for example S300 AA explosions videos

@Sam
Do you mean cookoff effects, like in ACE3 mod? Or just a large amount of sparks on vehicle explosions? Feel free to link me reference footage if that helps you explain

@FuZerAa
This is an alternative to Blastcore, there's no point running them together as they do the same thing. Photon is a much more FPS - friendly visual FX overhaul, whereas Blastcore is much more intense with extra particle fx. I mean no disrespect to Blastcore, it is beautiful, but it does hit FPS hard.

Any chance to make cloud of sparkle effect when any vehicle with ammo explode like IRL?

is this compatible with blastcore?