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RAF_Mutleys Flak.fx

dvslats

dvslats

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When these first came out in 2001 I was really impressed with them. How he found the way to have the flak burst hang in the air, the AA rounds would stitch a ribbon in the sky of shell bursts right in front of your aircraft. Nice!
A minor problem with my computer at the time was the resources that were sapped from it to maintain the black burst cloud...FPS dropped. So comparing the stock file to his, I located the changes he had made. Dropped the hang time by 60%. Now they fade after 15 to 20 seconds, but still give the look that originally gave the impressive effect. So for those that have not modded these yet, I thought to share this little enhancement. Just remove the .txt
 
dvslats, from the pics they look real good. I found some and did some work on them by adding the flak splash.They look real good but I do take a fram hit when they go off.The reason is the hang time of the heavy part of the flak. The problem is on my pc and it seams on others as well the dark part of the flak hangs to long and the lighter part not long enough. If you take the dark part and let it hang for a short time and the light to fade out part hang fore a longer period of time it seams you wouldn`t take as much of a from hit as before.Adding the flak splash is a nice effect when you are making thoes low gun runs on an enemy ship or ground target.:typing:
 
Bob, if you finalize that longer lasting version with splash, are you gonna upload it? The only reason I didn't grab the ones Dvslats posted is I want the splash effect too.
 
It is not hard to add the splash effect.All you need to do is add the falk splash effect by pasting it to the bottom of the flak effect and the then redo the numbers of the splash effect to work with the flak effect. I can do it but it will be sometime week aftetr next before I could start on it.The only problem is I put the effect on all three flak effect files. This gives the splash effect even when when you have a high burst.If you want to try ,or anyone else try putting the splash on the ,reading from left to right ,the last flak effect. I think this may be the low burst flak effect.Someone that really knows what they are doing should play with thies effects to see what we can come up with.I am like most people, I have had my pc for about 10 years and am just learning how to use it.OK, I am alittle slow but I am old to, LOL:typing:
 
bobhegf said:
If you take the dark part and let it hang for a short time and the light to fade out part hang fore a longer period of time it seams you wouldn`t take as much of a from hit as before.Adding the flak splash is a nice effect when you are making thoes low gun runs on an enemy ship or ground target.:typing:
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That's a good idea bobhegf. By comparing what Nanni, Nibbio, and GhostPony have already done maybe I'll be able to come up with something similar to what you're describing. :wave: Time will tell...
 
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