Kinetic VFX Arma Reforger Mod

Kinetic VFX is part of the Kinetic family of mods. Kinetic SFX does the same for what you hear; the two are made to work together: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/B076785601A267E3-KineticSFX Kinetic VFX makes combat look and feel like it hits: gunfire, tracers, impacts, explosions, fires and wrecks, plus suppression when rounds land close. Effects follow real physics and how the real thing behaves: no lens flares, no bloom, no film grain, nothing cartoonish. Every effect has its own slider. GUNFIRE - Muzzle flashes that vary shot to shot and scale with the calibre; at night your own flash is held back so you can see your target - Muzzle gas, burst smoke, a smoking barrel, steam in rain; dust from low muzzles, backblast and cannons, matched to the ground - A suppressor's first-shot pop; a machine-gun barrel glowing dull red after a long string at night - Launchers leave a propellant cloud at the shooter and a smoke trail along the rocket's path TRACERS - A burning, flickering glow with a white-hot core, visible far off and lighting the ground around it; works with any mod's tracers IMPACTS - By surface: dirt, chips, brick dust, splinters, mud off wet ground; sparks and ricochets off metal and stone EXPLOSIONS (real blast physics) - Sized by the explosive's real charge, so other mods' grenades, rockets, shells and mines fit too - The shock front races out faster than sound and slows as it weakens; by day you see it as a brief band of bent air - The blast wind throws dust out along the ground at its real speed, coloured by the ground each way; the dust drifts back as the air rushes in behind - Fragments kick up dirt, chips and sparks all round; smoke, sparks and a fireball; debris raining back - The pressure wave, the gust in grass and trees, dust off roofs and flickering lamps arrive with the front, as hard as the blast where you are - Scorch marks, smouldering craters, blasts in water REAL LIGHT - Every light the mod makes casts real shadows: flashes, blasts, tracers and sparks near you, fires anywhere (how many at once follows Performance) - Fires breathe at their natural pulse instead of flickering, their shadows shifting softly with the flames - Muzzle flashes vanish within a few frames; blasts swell, fade and cool from yellow-white to deep orange - Burning vehicles light the ground softly, without the game's hard bright circle - Others' flashlights no longer float as bright points far off; lamps flicker when a blast wave hits them (with Congos Dynamic Lights) FIRES AND WRECKS - Wrecks burn and smoulder far longer (you choose) under smoke ageing from black to grey; flare-ups and cook-offs with pops and stray tracers - Damaged engines smoke grey, then black; radiators steam - Burning fuel pools on the ground round a tanker - Grass fires on dry days, started by blasts, tracers and flares, spreading with the wind and leaving burnt ground (looks only) - Collapsing buildings roll out a low dust cloud and leave a haze over the ruin THE BATTLEFIELD - Battle haze where a fight goes on; smoke shaped by wind, rain and fog, and still under a roof - Smoke grenades build a real screen that rolls low with the wind and hangs in calm air - Bullet holes stay for minutes; a long fight indoors fills the room with settling dust - Helicopter downwash, vehicle dust trails, flares that swing and sputter out; no two effects alike ON YOUR SCREEN (only you see these) - Suppression: blur, colour loss and shake; concussion and dirt from close blasts - Tunnel vision, heartbeat, a flinch when hit, lost night vision after a bright flash; optional aim tremor (off by default) SETTINGS - A "Kinetic VFX" tab in Settings: a slider for every effect (0-300%), presets and a Look (Realistic or Cinematic) - Performance: Potato to I Want It All; lower levels trim the costliest effects first; a frame-rate guard - The /fx chat command and Documents\My Games\ArmaReforger\profile\KineticVFX.txt MULTIPLAYER - Single player, player-hosted and dedicated servers (the server has to load it). Each player's game draws the effects with their own settings. No changes to damage, ballistics or the AI. COMPATIBILITY - Needs only the base game and replaces no game files. Played on 1.9 with Shrapnel (the fragment spray halves itself), Improved Blood Effect and Congos Dynamic Lights. - ReFX - Effects Enhancement and Spectral Tracers aren't needed: if either is loaded, Kinetic VFX switches off its own version of their effects. - Enhanced Effects also reworks explosions: run one or the other. - RHS: Status Quo's big guns will follow once RHS is updated for 1.9. - Works together with Kinetic SFX (link at the top) and Kinetic SFX - Vanilla Guns: https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/2EA7C1F7837DDECF-KineticSFX-VanillaGuns Made for Arma Reforger 1.9. Made with the help of Opus 5.5. If this is an issue for you, fair enough don't use the mod.