Ashura's VFX Pack v3.0

[Abyss]

I wasn't sure where to put this thread, but there's an interesting new visual effects hakpak out: http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view...ts.Detail&id=9

There's really some interesting effects here. My favorites are the snow and the fireworks.

[Saulus]

Yeah I'm familiar with the pack. It's just in the end an extra download for you guys... when we do require special FX we end up making our own because in the end it will look better.

[Ash]

The waterfalls in that aren't great. They're too small. You end up placing dozens of them, which bumps up the particle count in one spot and hammers frames.

The biggest problem with developing a decent-sized waterfall is you really need a high particle count, and very small particles. This, again, kills frame-rates. So you drop the particle count and enlarge the particle size, which improves frames, but doesn't look so good.

Sestra wil eventually have a waterfall, but the number of hours that went into getting it looking half-decent almost equals that of the dev time of a decent interior. So you lot had better appreciate it or the DM of Doom will pay a visit