The Big Huge Effects Pack!

@Gibbon:

Excellent work Why, thanks for sharing

EDIT

Did you do any more with the smoke fx for ship damage or was one of your previous uploads the last version you altered? I have them included in my Phoenix mod, was just wondering if you’d altered them as i noticed they were not in the current upload

Its been some time so I may be wrong on this.

There is definitely a version of the ship damage smoke effect in the pack. You can find it at DATA\FX\EXPLOSIONS\gf_continuous_damage.ale. I am pretty sure there is a slight difference between the one I uploaded originally, and the one that is in this pack. I made the smoke particles tighter, which makes the effect look much better, and you avoid the “bubble effect” which is what I call what happens when you don’t have enough particles to make it look like smoke. However this version is a little more demanding than the old one.

It has come to my attention that I never explained how to do the fiery debris. It is fairly simple though.

For example, the Kusari Battleship explosion.

Shiparch.ini

Under the Kusari Battleship I have the line “explosion_arch = explosion_ku_battleship” to call the explosion. The explosion is then defined in the “explosions.ini”

Explosion.ini

This comprises of several parts. The first part, is the explosion itself. For which the code is here.

[explosion]
nickname = explosion_ku_battleship ; Name
lifetime = 0.000000, 0 ; Not sure
process = disappear ; Other value is "shatter" I am not entirely sure what the differences are
effect = gf_capital_explode_yellow, 0.000000 ; This is the ALE effect that will be called on the explosion
debris_type = debris_capital_death, 1.000000 ; To be honest I'm not sure what this is or where its defined, I just copied it off the old explosions
debris_impulse = 150 ; How fast the debris gets thrown outwards
innards_debris_start_time = 0.000000 ; Presumably sets a delay before the debris spawns
innards_debris_num = 50 ; How many bits of debris are spawned in the explosion
innards_debris_radius = 100 ; Radius at which debris are spawned from the center of the object 
innards_debris_object = simple_torpedo_debris01 ; Very important, which debris object is used for the debris

The second part, is the debris itself.

[Simple]
nickname = simple_torpedo_debris01 ; Name 
DA_archetype = Equipment\models\weapons\dummy_round.3db ; Model of the debris, I used a dummy model I made, its also included in the effects pack
material_library = equipment\models\ku_equip.mat ; Material for the model of the debris
Mass = 10 ; How heavy the debris is

@FuryFreelancer:

Just some CRC corrections to this awesome pack:

In: “DATA\FX\EXPLOSIONS\explosions_ale.ini”

'-105140263' for 'gf_battledust'

'-522438362' for 'gf_capital_explode_green'

'-263687348' for 'gf_capital_explode_blue_small'

'-50230066' for 'gf_capital_explode_yellow_small'

'-204439480' for 'gf_fighter_explode_white_small'

No biggy of course

Interesting. Those are the values I used straight out of Itano Circus, and they obviously work there. I just ran my CRC checker and I notice you are using the alternate CRC. If that works as well, then all is well, but I always used the first value.

He is talking about the flaming debris trail. Yes that effect is in the pack. It is called gf_continous_damage. However it has occurred to me that I forgot to put in how I implemented the debris trails for the larger capital ships explosions like you see in the Itano Circus videos. It is fairly simple though.

For example, the Kusari Battleship explosion.

Shiparch.ini

Under the Kusari Battleship I have the line “explosion_arch = explosion_ku_battleship” to call the explosion. The explosion is then defined in the “explosions.ini”

Explosion.ini

This comprises of several parts. The first part, is the explosion itself. For which the code is here.

[explosion]
nickname = explosion_ku_battleship ; Name
lifetime = 0.000000, 0 ; Not sure
process = disappear ; Other value is "shatter" I am not entirely sure what the differences are
effect = gf_capital_explode_yellow, 0.000000 ; This is the ALE effect that will be called on the explosion
debris_type = debris_capital_death, 1.000000 ; To be honest I'm not sure what this is or where its defined, I just copied it off the old explosions
debris_impulse = 150 ; How fast the debris gets thrown outwards
innards_debris_start_time = 0.000000 ; Presumably sets a delay before the debris spawns
innards_debris_num = 50 ; How many bits of debris are spawned in the explosion
innards_debris_radius = 100 ; Radius at which debris are spawned from the center of the object 
innards_debris_object = simple_torpedo_debris01 ; Very important, which debris object is used for the debris

The second part, is the debris itself.

[Simple]
nickname = simple_torpedo_debris01 ; Name 
DA_archetype = Equipment\models\weapons\dummy_round.3db ; Model of the debris, I used a dummy model I made, its also included in the effects pack
material_library = equipment\models\ku_equip.mat ; Material for the model of the debris
Mass = 10 ; How heavy the debris is

@crashbx:

Can implement this and use this on any vanilla server ? I will try now

The gf_continuous_damage can be implemented safely on its own. It replaces a vanilla effect so you can just drag-drop and it will be used in whatever situations vanilla calls that effect for.

However the debris-spraying as demonstrated above actually involves editing of the ini files. I do not think there will be any trouble caused by using those particular ini edits online, as a suprising amount of Freelancer is client side during multiplayer play. However, admins will be very wary of the fact that you actually modifying ini files to be different from what the server is using, even if it is for something harmless like this.

I have updated the Effects Pack. It was missing the updated textures that I used for my effects. In the smoke.txm, there is the missile smoke texture that I use for all my missiles. In the standardeffects.txm, is the updated explosion sprite I made. It also has the documentation for the debris explosions.