ReFX: Particle Enhancement

[thorn elbow]

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/6172FBB03A3D6C10-ReFX-EffectsEnhancement

For those who like nice looking effects :3

Remade most if not all hit effects for bullet impacts to be more visible and cooler looking, while still keeping it grounded and performant as possible.

Also made grenades/blast particles last longer, especially on sand and dirt/grass and gave them visual fragmentation

Posted are videos + images that go over some impact effects and grenade effects.

I always take feedback, if you want/need any changes done that you believe is an improvement to the mod, just message me and I'll listen :)
I hope y'all enjoy this mod :D

[snow cipher]

https://tenor.com/view/madagscar-penguins-kaboom-gif-9833865

[thorn elbow]

kaboom

and also the rpg looks better now

another view of how it looks like this time less texture compression cuz of reforger being reforger

havent yet done it for the LAW tho but that comes next

Most of my videos use Ashyl's mods + a bunch of others, but every particle effect you see here is either Vanilla or my mod!!! (just for clarification)

[lofty tide]

Actually looks and sounds pretty realistic, the bouncing is a good addition.

[thorn elbow]

those are Ashyls mods, sorry. please look at the message above!!!!

[lofty tide]

Still, the impact of the warhead if yours is pretty accurate.

[prime needle]

Does it fuck with the fps at all?

[viscid obsidian]

Very nice and a great proof of concept that a lil more hang time for the effects looks so much better

[thorn elbow]

depends

if you throw 70 ai against 70 ai with grenade launchers yes.. but to be fair base game isnt much better

if theres enough demand i can make a version that removes all particle systems with collisions (which should be more performant)

compared to vanilla VERY slight performance loss

my LODs are actually more "performant" (less particles) than vanilla

[prime needle]

Looks great either way, exactly what vanilla reforger is missing imo

[thorn elbow]

thanks, i agree

saw nobody has done that before so did it myself lol

[upper mason]

Enhanced weapon immersion still working ?, in thought was broke after the 1.2.1

[thorn elbow]

Seems to

[hard reef]

Exp version works, in stable there’s still that bug with rifles not holstering

[upper mason]

sadly he will not update the mod when 1.3 releases

[upper mason]

Cool mod

[hard reef]

yeah, he said hes in the military but hopefully he will be back

[tender barn]

Cool work! Really like the effects in general, only for my personal flavor they are to much and i would prefer them less prominent. Something between your effects and vanilla would work best for me. Keep up the good work.

[thorn elbow]

I can make a „Lite“ version if the demand is high enough

is it just the size or something else?

[tender barn]

From my first impression, it is the size, i will do some further testing to give a more detailed feedback.

[thorn elbow]

i see

ill def think about a lite version or a smaller version just for those who want even more grounded effects

[heady ice]

Cut back the effects like 25 percent itd be perfect

[thorn elbow]

what does by 25% mean

size? opacity? whuh??

[floral rivet]

i believe size

[thorn elbow]

this video shows how my mod actually like. has slight psychological gameplay changes!!

[viscid obsidian]

Yea, much better visual feedback

[hearty vapor]

This is so hot

[worn radish]

Its hotter then hot

[autumn spear]

Any performance loss ?

[thorn elbow]

slight, yes, as my hit particles have more collidable particles (im thinking about making a lite version without these however)

in overall combat you will not see a noticable slowdown, and if you do... REPORT to me :D!!!

[thorn elbow]

(these are the small rocks that stay on the ground for a few seconds)

[floral rivet]

@crude atlas

[tired torrent]

There is a recommendation for the mod stack? set as the last mode? (first in the json)

[midnight reef]

Saw this, i thought it was not allowed to use other game's assets without permission, unless you did get permission?

[viscid obsidian]

OT, but its good to see some highlevel faces in ARMA Discord @midnight reef 👋

[midnight reef]

heyoo 😄

[dapper summit]

This doesn’t affect tracers, gun actions and sounds. Just the hit effects (dust up) on the wall, cement or steel?

[thorn elbow]

Only dust

[thorn elbow]

shit you might be right

i only used some water from squad but ill replace them asap

[thorn elbow]

removing Addon from workshop while i replace it

will be fixed soon once i find myself some good water textures :D

@midnight reef thanks for notifying me about this

[midnight reef]

Of course! 😄

[thorn elbow]

time to download 40gb of stock footage 😭

[thorn elbow]

the water texture has been replaced

with something im actually licensed to use

honestly i think it looks slightly better even now

[midnight reef]

Nice!

[thorn elbow]

you get a special thanks for this in the description.. lol

[midnight reef]

An absolute honor lad 😂

[thorn elbow]

its back up btw

[jolly sentinel]

@earnest river

[marsh fox]

I love those dust effects like in the grenade explosion, that work with every explosive types ? Shells, bombs... ?

[tender barn]

Version 1.0.4?

[thorn elbow]

Should yeah

[thorn elbow]

Uhhh i think no, version 2.0.0

[marsh fox]

Damn good

[wintry frost]

Wut happened to the mod updates??

[mystic raven]

You don't mind if I can show those pics to my friends group Discord mods suggestions if that ok with you?

[thorn elbow]

its all good, u can do that

[thorn elbow]

? i dont think theres anything to change

[wintry frost]

Oh no it’s been a month

I just thought there would be no updates

My fault

[mystic raven]

Awesome thanks! 😄👍

[thorn elbow]

if someone comes with me about an issue id be glad to fix it lol.. i just havent found anything to fix

[wooden hemlock]

have used it on server for a long time

[turbid wolf]

Hello, will this mod be updated for 1.3?

[modest canyon]

Hey, is it possible to disable some effects?

[bleak ice]

Yes please

[spice wasp]

When I’m in a crouched position and fire my weapon, particles shoot up from the grass as if I’m hitting the ground, even though I’m not aiming downwards.

[willow shoal]

Are you by chance using another mod such as realism overhaul effects or one by ashyl? It adds a smoke cloud under the gun when fired, this may cause this problem with this mod.

[spice wasp]

Yeah give me a second

[willow shoal]

I believe Realism Overhaul - Effects might be your problem. I’m sorry 😢

[spice wasp]

😭😭😭

Is it compatible with BetterSounds 3.6?

[radiant lance]

a lite version would be amazing! Be cool if general common impacts (steel/concrete/high dust particles were lessened. But the occasional impacts stayed the same. (Blood/explosions/water impact)

[deep tangle]

is there a way to make this compatible with realism overhaul effects?

[thorn elbow]

^

the reason this happens is that ashyls/ROE uses the tiny impact effects as a proxy to make muzzle effects create a dust cloud underneath the rifle

however, the reason WHY this clashes is that I use the tiny impact effects to simulate fragmentation by grenades

[thorn elbow]

working on it, but have been pretty out of it for the past few months :( especially reforger modding, but im looking forward to doing something like this!!!

ill have a look at it in a few weeks and maybe ill make something more realistic, less flashy, who knows

[radiant lance]

No worries what’s so ever! I was more so suggesting it for optimization. As for being the creator we abide by your rules and time 🫡 . I appreciate the content as always!

[thorn elbow]

updated. complete rework

[modest canyon]

@thorn elbow awesome update but I have a suggestion

It would be awesome if u could reduce flare (?) when a grenade explode. I think it's too excessive. Usually when grenade explode they should rise a lot of dust

[thorn elbow]

sure

was planning to overhaul grenades either way

[jaunty bison]

Are you referring to how ashyl made his grenade effects? Or just toning it down with out changing it

[thorn elbow]

ashyl?

Ashyl has nothing to do with this wat
The grenades in my mod are too bright/sparky (or atleast the sparks are too big)

[jaunty bison]

Ahh makes sense

[merry bobcat]

Love the new impact effects!

[mystic raven]

Aye! It awesome!

[merry bobcat]

Small bug report, the mod changes the material on walls, bricks and roofs of certain wooden houses.

[thorn elbow]

im about 100% sure that this is NOT my mod

BUT. i have had this exact issue aswell

not a single mod i ever put out messes/changes any materials anywhere

[merry bobcat]

Ahh, might be an error on BIs end then. Upon looking at it further, it seems the walls have gotten material of the roof, the roof has gotten material of the foundation and foundation has gotten material of the walls lmao

[thorn elbow]

this is a game bug i believe, but it might be another mod messing it up lmao

[thorn elbow]

do you know which building it exactly is? i cant find the building ingame right now lmao

[merry bobcat]

2 sec ill send a pic. Im in game master rn without any mods enabled

[thorn elbow]

nvm found it, yellowish planked house with corrugated metal roof

[merry bobcat]

Yeah, youre right though, happens even without any mods enabled

[thorn elbow]

weird. LOL. maybe its built using special bullet proofing under the wood? LMAO

[merry bobcat]

haha

[thorn elbow]

the reason why nobody found out is because the vanilla effects all look the same and are so underwhelming 😭

[merry bobcat]

Truuue haha

[thorn elbow]

also right i made a new mod, refx - muzzles which makes guns' smoke/muzzleflash nicer, mostly smoke
its more "explosive" instead of the tiny puff of smoke that vanilla has

[merry bobcat]

Ohh, gotta try that one out! Very nice!

[thorn elbow]

but im still working on everything so i might redo, change, add whatever
and if anyone has any suggestions i might do those too lmao

[merry bobcat]

Would you consider doing another pass on grenade explosions? They have alot of sparks currently that seem slightly oversized, though the initial puff of smoke itself looks amazing

[thorn elbow]

supressors

[thorn elbow]

i believe ive already done that, try it out lol
i did it like 2 days ago? but i try to keep them a little larger to make them seem good from afar aswell

[merry bobcat]

Ahh, okay, I havent looked at it yet. I've only really been on Reforger recently to test some sound stuff related to guns so I havent been playing with guns. Ill have a look then!

[thorn elbow]

@merry bobcat heres the current nade effects

youre not the first to tell me theyre a bit to big lmao

[merry bobcat]

Ok, I havent seen those. That looks crazy good

[thorn elbow]

i try my best. lol

also im working on something for the muzzles mod, its been tried before but ill see if i can do some good

theres already a quasi-version of it in the mod but sometimes looks off

these are currently not material dependant but i already figured out how to make them that, its just really stupid to implement

so we will see actually concrete flavoured dust on concrete and stuff, instead of the same tan dust everywhere lol

also the dev versions on experimental are VERY outdated lol

[mystic raven]

I quite like those, they would be cool for Warhammer 40k getting hit by plasma weapon leaving plasma burn or something like that on the armor 😄

[white idol]

I honestly think that looks pretty good, though it does look a lot like a firecracker, haha. Maybe you could say someone put a little magnalium inside to spice it up 🥴
The shimmers are totally on point, though. Maybe give them a little less lifetime?

[jaunty bison]

@thorn elbow sorry to bother you. I was gonna ask if you could make the muzzle flashes a little bit brighter at night?

[keen orbit]

@thorn elbow could you make it so when RPGs are shot the backblast kicks up significant amounts of dirt like real life

Also would it be possible to have guns react differently to different environments so for example when prone shooting in sand it kicks up more as opposed to when doing the same on roads/pavement

[thorn elbow]

^^^im working on this, sadly its very intensive to do this, also kinda burnt out D:

[thorn elbow]

they already are quite brighter but ill look into it, maybe ill make a seperate version (m16 flashhider actually.. hides flash.. somewhat!)

[thorn elbow]

I knoww, but first and foremost is to make it look good, rather than realistic! afterall grenades barely have any flash or sparks to them and are basically just a puff..

[thorn elbow]

also this is theoretically already done in in vanilla but the effects spawned on the ground (which r the same as explosion blast effects) just dont last enough to have any meaningful impact. I'd need to overhaul dust effects to make that, which, honestly, would make performance drop since i'd need to make them last longer (to make them look good, imo)

[white idol]

It looks epic and that's cool

[thorn elbow]

i dont wanna make it full michael bay tho. i wanna keep a nice middle ground

[keen orbit]

dont stop now man ive seen this and i need to for my server!!! shits sick

[thorn elbow]

dude 😭 i know wym and i want to try to avoid it lmao
but seriously, to do that id need to.. uh

1. make muzzleblast particles for every material (11? 12?, not that difficult, mostly copy pasting)

2. make a trigger prefab

3. edit every muzzle effect for every gun to have the trigger prefab for these muzzle blast particles

4. edit every game material and add the corresponding muzzleblast particle to its config (until i find a decent way to do this without boring a hole into my skull, im not doing this 😭 )

5. Enjoy (until people beg to make it work with modded weapons)

And then watch it all break when reforger adds any sort of new explosives and overwrites your particle index

[low talon]

Is this mod compatible with improved blood effects

[keen orbit]

100% gonna happen no doubt

Watch 1.5 brick all modders mods

[thorn elbow]

no but I can make it (actually i dont know But I heavily assume so)

Actually I think it works?

[white idol]

Works fine from my experience

[mystic raven]

Absolutely love this mod

[stray cairn]

Someone should make a video of comparison between all the other effect mods

[mystic raven]

Aye!

[daring parrot]

Been using this mod for quite awhile. Any plans to update for 1.6? @thorn elbow

[thorn elbow]

Is it broken?

[wooden hemlock]

Nope. Still working. I have use this light weight Effect on my server for several game version

[faint harbor]

Maybe push a dummy update

[keen orbit]

Really hope this mod still gets worked on especially considering the other ones discontinued

[slate egret]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is this mod compatible with Realism Overhaul - Effects?

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/631D61C22E30D845-RealismOverhaul-Effects

[hard reef]

Yes but the particles that shoot up from the ground in RO look pretty goofy with this mod

[slate egret]

Hmm, so I'd have to choose between them

[hard reef]

I’d say so yeah

[uneven kelp]

I like to combine the realism sounds with this mods effects

[celest hazel]

Does anyone have any feedback on the console?

[keen orbit]

Not sure how laggy it is but it looks super nice

[eternal orchid]

last few updates it’s been alright on performance. not sure about this one