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Photon VFX

Photon is a lightweight upgrade to the visual effects of explosions in the game, with brighter, more vibrant lighting, shrapnel spark effects, and blast wave refraction effects.
Vehicle tracer lifetime has also been increased slightly to make them more effective at relevant ranges. Tracer brightness, size, and colour have not been altered.

Designed with an aim to have as minimal fps impact as possible, whilst making the game more immersive and impactful.

No mods required.
.pbo files for fx are separated so you can choose to remove the lighting, sparks, or blast refraction effects.


Photon VFX is recommended (but not required) to use in conjunction with Photon VFX Smoke addon, and Munitions Armoury - get them here :

Smoke : https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3001088972
Armoury : https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2964055294


IMPORTANT : Not intended to be used at the same time as Real Engine blast wave effects, or Blastcore blast effects and its derivative versions - this may cause some visual effect conflicts with the blast wave refraction. Other features of these mods should work fine.
In short - only run ONE of either 'real_sfx_blast_refract.pbo' (Real Engine), 'blast_refract.pbo' (Blastcore), or 'refraction.pbo' (Photon) for best results.


Take a look at my workshop page for many more Arma 3 mods!
https://steamproxy.net/id/awenza/myworkshopfiles/?appid=107410




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