New explosion FXs (RK's Explosions)

[rks_explosions]

Just posting to say rks_explosions is 1 year old today!

I brought cake, but it exploded...

[Sheeo]

Happy birthday RK

[speed2]

oh shit, have I missed the party?

[eXcalibur]

i am not sure, whether this is the right place, but i ask anyway:

is it possible to scale down the explosion of the commander billy nuke, e.g. by creating a custom billy explosion?
it always strikes me as a very strange thing: you see a giant nuke explosion as the billy hits, but it does much less damage than expected.

[Shai--Hulud]

Is this thread still alive, i.e. is rks still working on the mod?

[RK4000]

Is this thread still alive, i.e. is rks still working on the mod?

I am not currently working on the mod anymore. and I don't know when and if I'll ever continue working on it either.

This is because a few people I won't name went to considerable efforts to stop people from using the mod, just because they themselves don't like it. For example, saying V8 always desyncs mods. This is very incorrect. V8 only occasionally desyncs the mods when the toggle is used, and I'm pretty sure 90% of the users don't even know how to use the toggle at all as you have to edit a file. But, as I said, if those certain people can go to such lenghts to get others to stop using the mod, just because they don't want to play with it, I don't see any point of currently continuing my work.

[wasdf]

Awh, i wanted to try out your mod but it didn't work. I can't see why you wouldn't want factional explosions. even worse ruin this for other people.

[Sir Prize]

It sucks to see you've abandoned this RK.

If you fixed the desync issue (it desynced a bunch of my games), made all dying units with extended explosions become reclaimable at the same time as normal explosions, even as the explosions continue (some explosions already do this), and finished the explosions for units that don't have them (Scathis?) the mod would probably be integrated and the people who don't like it could just toggle off and never care again.

Throwing the work out because your mod isn't universally loved doesn't make sense, especially once you started working on a toggle.

[VoiceofReason]

Yes, people who experienced desyncs while using the toggle, do exist; it was never a wild theory to stop people from playing your mod...

[RK4000]

It sucks to see you've abandoned this RK.

If you fixed the desync issue (it desynced a bunch of my games), made all dying units with extended explosions become reclaimable at the same time as normal explosions, even as the explosions continue (some explosions already do this), and finished the explosions for units that don't have them (Scathis?) the mod would probably be integrated and the people who don't like it could just toggle off and never care again.

Throwing the work out because your mod isn't universally loved doesn't make sense, especially once you started working on a toggle.

I'm not abandoning it because it's not "universally loved". That doesn't make any sense like you said. And I'm not really "abandoning" it either per-se, I'm probably going to continue at some point, but when and if that's going to happen I cannot say.

As for units without custom explosions yet, please understand I am the only one actually designing the explosions. I may get some help with code every now and then, but the actual effects are only my work, so it takes a lot of time. Just think about how many units there are. Keeping the explosions diverse is not as simple as it looks, and is the reason why the Scathis does not have one yet. I never said the mod was finished, and I do not want to just give it some generic explosion and be done with it. When I get a good idea and concept for it, I'm going to make it. Until then, I'm not just going to make some half-assed explosion for it, that would just make me seem lazy..

Yes, people who experienced desyncs while using the toggle, do exist; it was never a wild theory to stop people from playing your mod...

The reason I'm taking a long break from it is not that simple. It's not because it's not "universally loved". It's because there's a big difference between people that don't like it not playing it and the same people trying to convince everyone else to not like it. Obviously not everyone has the same taste, I completely understand that. It's the reason I even tried making a toggle. But when people that don't like it are trying to get other people to not like it as well, that's not something pleasant to put up with.

This has been happening way before I even got the idea to make a toggle, it's not something recent.