If you like burning wreckages and explosions, I have something for you :)

[Max Bain]

Ok, not yet, but soon...

I am working on an explosion mod which brings back some kind of XR explosion effects but in an improved version with burning and smoking wreckages and some fusion reactor explosions and sparks and stuff like that

Have a look at my short video I captured (quality is not very good - first time I used the capture program):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMHPm1WtKPg



The weapons used are from my weapon pack mod.

[Alan Phipps]

Moving to X4 S&M forum.

[Sirilius]

Looks awesome. Did you use the explosion from the mines to accomplish part of this?

How did this affect performance?

[Max Bain]

Moving to X4 S&M forum.

Why? I wanted to post it in general corner because modding forum is very technically and most ppl who dont mod dont look there...

Looks awesome. Did you use the explosion from the mines to accomplish part of this?

How did this affect performance?

You can see my fps in the left corner with a GTX 1070 in ultra details and WQHD resolution.

I dont know what effects I took. Just a ton of try and error until I found what I wanted and then finetuning them.

[zedfactor]

Looks great! Can't wait! There doesn't seem to be any noticeable hit to performance either.

[radcapricorn]

I wanted to post it in general corner because modding forum is very technically and most ppl who dont mod dont look there...

You're kind of answering your own question there. People that mod may look and see, people that don't - won't.

[Axeface]

Looks awesome
Can you control how the explosions happen? I thought a bit of variety in them would be cool. Eg, it would be epic is sometimes theres a 'critical explosion' that causes a ship to do the large blue explosion the instant it dies.

[MHDriver]

I've been using the XR explosions mod for X4 which is pretty nice. I do like the burning hulk effect in your clip over the antimatter explosion style.

[lordofpie7000]

That looks absolutely awesome. I can feel the frames falling by the second. As if there weren't enough frame issues with the game already, I'll definitely be downloading this when it's ready.

[adzipp]

Number one must have staff!

[Max Bain]

That looks absolutely awesome. I can feel the frames falling by the second. As if there weren't enough frame issues with the game already, I'll definitely be downloading this when it's ready.

The good part about this is that in over 90% the graphics card is not the bottleneck but the CPU.
So in most cases you wont notice any performance hits because these effects dont need anything to be calculated by the CPU but only the GPU. In big asteroid fields it might be a bit different because there the graphics card can be lowering your fps, but normally you wont fight big fleet battles in big asteroid fields (because of pathfinding and so) anyway.

Can you control how the explosions happen? I thought a bit of variety in them would be cool. Eg, it would be epic is sometimes theres a 'critical explosion' that causes a ship to do the large blue explosion the instant it dies.

I made many explosion effects random already. WIll try to make them even more diverse but its a lot "change some lines, load a game, check the effect by destroying several ships, quit game and repeat" which takes a lot of time

[Mycu]

It looks just outstanding....
Now I realised that Max Bain is just an alias of Michael Bay

Thanks Michael

[Max Bain]

It looks just outstanding....
Now I realised that Max Bain is just an alias of Michael Bay

Thanks Michael

Lol! Thats a good one

[Mackan]

WIll try to make them even more diverse but its a lot "change some lines, load a game, check the effect by destroying several ships, quit game and repeat" which takes a lot of time

Use "thevoid" gamestart for testing if you aren't already, makes loading almost instantaneous. Really saves my sanity while testing things.

You might want to change the cluster background for it though, the default one might be too dark for your purposes.

[JakubCW]

This looks awesome, will defo be waiting for this one ..

great work!!

[Max Bain]

WIll try to make them even more diverse but its a lot "change some lines, load a game, check the effect by destroying several ships, quit game and repeat" which takes a lot of time

Use "thevoid" gamestart for testing if you aren't already, makes loading almost instantaneous. Really saves my sanity while testing things.

You might want to change the cluster background for it though, the default one might be too dark for your purposes.

What is the void gamestart? I searched for a mod with that name but didnt found one. And in vanilla I dont see it.

[Sirilius]

What is the void gamestart? I searched for a mod with that name but didnt found one. And in vanilla I dont see it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/21

It's a gamestart. No idea if it still works.

[ObsidianOne]

Looking very good , keep it up.

[Axeface]

Any chance of a 'lite' version for people with performance problems, that just replaces the big disk thing? Not a fan of the new red one in X4 and your blue one looks so much better.

[Max Bain]

Any chance of a 'lite' version for people with performance problems, that just replaces the big disk thing? Not a fan of the new red one in X4 and your blue one looks so much better.

Sorry but no. I have already too many mods to support that I am thinking of putting some together.
Btw this one will also include burning modules like in xr if they got destroyed.