New explosion FXs (RK's Explosions)

[IceDreamer]

Dotwars isn't great for showing of fancy FX

[RK4000]

Uploaded replay of 3v3 Open Palms game with explosions. Mostly T1 stage, kinda bad play by me too, but it shows the changed UEF explosions nicely.

Also uploaded it in first post.

[IceDreamer]

OK so feedback from me:

All Air is way too big, but as you said that is very much concept only so nothing to worry about there.
Cybran and Aeon T1 Land explosions - Beautiful. Really really nice.
Seraphim T1 Land explosion - Too big, too brash. It works on the Thaam (Just) but it's much to violent an explosion coming from an Engineer or an AA. The flash boldness or brightness or something needs to be toned down about 20%.
UEF T1 Land Explosion - The flash is right, the smoke seems right, but the fire is too compact, it needs to spread out more, just a bit. It seems understated. On the other hand, the way it is right now looks perfect on Engineers.
The Shockwave - Nice idea but too distracting. That warping effect moves fast and shifts things, it's very irritating in a large fight when you are trying to focus on something. Reduce the warping amount? Reduce the radius? Reduce the opacity of the effect, somehow? Something...


And now the BIG ask... You like your coding, but there's one massive problem with this whole mod, and that is that Aeon explosions will always be Green, Cybran red, etcetera... Is it even REMOTELY possible that you could attempt the unbelievable, and have the hue of the explosion be defined by the Team Colour of the unit which is exploding... That would take this mod from being a decent improvement to an "OMG how did he do that" moment in SupCom's history.


FOR ALL THOSE WONDERING

I began extremely sceptical about this. Too many bright lights and primary colours ruining my nice gritty aesthetic. After seeing it in action though, there's great potential. Checking it out and giving feedback is the best way to make it perfect, so get checking!

[Aulex]

Dotwars isn't great for showing of fancy FX

This is actually really good, because the explosions don't distract from the gameplay aspect.

[SupremeBurger]

The explosions fit the game better in my opinion because the units are not powered by gas their powered by electricity to the electric explosions looks good (falling plane looks the best)

[RK4000]

The mod is now a standalone in the vault!

I have decided to separate my mod from Supreme Destruction and upload it as a regular mod onto the Vault for easier access to test things, and to allow playing with the improved explosions without changing balance.

Version 1 is now live on the vault, under the name "rks_explosions".

[RK4000]

Update for today:

*Drastically improved the way explosions look with bloom off (the explosions now look more-or-less the same as with bloom on).
*UEF explosion changed: More velocity for the fire particle in all tech levels.
*Reduced emission rate on airplane fall-down effects.

The mod has been uploaded to the vault as "rks_explosions V2".

[Plasma_Wolf]

Is it not possible to just update the mod version number in a lua file? It can be done with maps and that avoids a lot of clutter in the map vault (no more map, map v2, map v3 etc.) and it would avoid even more clutter in the mod vault because you're publishing a WIP mod.

Here's the link on how to do it with map versions: http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6781#p66488. Perhaps it's the same with mods, perhaps it's completely different or undoable, but I think it would be good to have a look at it.

[Man_of_Action]

Hey Guys, this is a display of one of the replays of a mod that beautifies FAF, enjoy!

[RK4000]

Also a slight heads-up.

The strange massive lag that comes when many units explode at once is not due to the explosions itself, but to the logging of the exploding things into the console.

The mod is, for obvious reasons, logging various things when a unit explodes. What unit it is, and other valuable information. Let's say it needs to send about 15 lines of code to the console. When this happens for many units at once, in a single engine tic, things will inevitably lag a little, but this lag will be removed when the mod is proven to be bug-less, since I will also remove the logging, or, if nothing else, significantly reduce the amount of information it relays to the console.

Enjoy the mod and post more replays/suggestions!

Is it not possible to just update the mod version number in a lua file? It can be done with maps and that avoids a lot of clutter in the map vault (no more map, map v2, map v3 etc.) and it would avoid even more clutter in the mod vault because you're publishing a WIP mod.

Here's the link on how to do it with map versions: http://www.faforever.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=6781#p66488. Perhaps it's the same with mods, perhaps it's completely different or undoable, but I think it would be good to have a look at it.

No idea, I tried just upping the version number from 1 to 2, and it told me a mod with this UID was already uploaded, so I changed it.