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Photon VFX - Smoke
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Photon VFX Smoke Addon

An upgrade to smoke visual effects - changes the shape of the particles, and less total particles spawned. Hopefully FPS performance is a bit better than vanilla smoke. Changes affect smoke grenades, grenade launcher smoke rounds, and smoke artillery rounds.
Smoke grenades interact with AI the same as a vanilla smoke grenade. No AI changes have been made.

Compatible and recommended to use with Photon VFX mod (but not required) :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2953412769


* Not compatible with "Splendid Smoke" or its derivatives.



I'm very open to feedback, so drop a comment below!
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Komodo Mar 7 @ 8:16am 
nice wenza
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Wenza  [author] Mar 6 @ 12:19am 
An update has been posted, hopefully this should perform a bit better with affecting AI visibility. Smoke particles should be moved by wind and rotor wash now.
Reticuli Mar 4 @ 5:33pm 
Yeah, the AI definitely sees through this more than it should, and for some reason with this back again I'm getting CTDs.
Hudson242 Dec 21, 2024 @ 11:39am 
Rotor wash from helicopters doesn't seem to directly affect the smoke, which is a huge bummer. That was one of my favorite things about splendid smoke; you could see the smoke columns twist and move in the distance as helicopters ingressed and egressed near them.
Hudson242 Dec 21, 2024 @ 7:01am 
Wenza, regarding AI's visibility through Splendid Smoke, I think I read somewhere that it has to do with altering the hitbox size of the smoke. I agree with others: If this mode offers better performance AND could actually provide the cover it appears to, you might have one hell of an awesome updated mod here.
kenoxite Nov 21, 2024 @ 7:49am 
This plus the main Photon VFX mod are a must have for me now. Better visuals and better performance than vanilla. Amazing stuff.
Reticuli Jul 29, 2024 @ 7:32pm 
Since this doesn't suddenly allow AI to see through smoke, any clues why I might suddenly have that problem? I don't use Splendid.
Wenza  [author] Feb 2, 2024 @ 12:14am 
@Puotek
Both mods are altering the same config values, so one would override the other, causing a conflict.
I'm not 100% sure how Splendid have configured their stuff to affect AI more, but both mods alter the particle effects in different ways.
Puotek Feb 1, 2024 @ 1:26pm 
Could you explain why is it not compatible with "Splendind Smoke", do you know the reason? I really like Photon VFX, but at the same time I would love smoke to affect AI more.
Wenza  [author] Sep 16, 2023 @ 12:01am 
@Jinx
SPE has their own smoke shell effects, I have no plans to change things for SPE at this time, maybe in the future but I haven't set any time aside for it