3. What controls vehicle burn pattern after exploding?
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What controls vehicle burn pattern after exploding?

  • Z

    Hello

    I have replaced some vehicles and noticed that some of them gets completely black after exploding and some don't.

    What controls this and how can I change it?

    Before: https://ibb.co/W0w2ptP
    After: https://ibb.co/dcc3wJv

    Notice how the BMW is not completly black after exploding I think this looks better and this seems to be what the orig vehicles do.

    Regards

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  • A

    @ZibbeZutt
    Generally, the 'vehicle_generic_burnt_int' & 'vehicle_generic_burnt_out' textures in 'vehshare.ytd' (or possibly burnt textures from the vehicle's own '.ytd') are applied to the vehicle.

    Best guess, it's a shader (uneditable atm afaik) that applies the texture, as I see no reference to those textures in any vehicle '.yft' (after exporting to '.yft.xml' with Codewalker). Someone who makes vehicles with ZModeler may have more detailed info :thumbsup:

    "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." - Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

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  • Z

    @a63nt-5m1th

    Thank you for your reply, ok I understand.

    Its bugging me out but 3d modelling goes beyond my capabilities.

    Would be nice if someone knew and could give some further hints.

    Maybe its possible to open ytf/ytd for editing in an appriopriate tool and change some parameters and export out again, I dunno.

    Best regards

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  • Z

    Or if there is a more global setting for all vehicles controlling how long it takes for the them to "burn up" i. e. change color after exploding.

    Now it just takes a couple of seconds for it to change, would be more realistic to increase this value.

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    @ZibbeZutt
    Have a play about with the 'EXP_VFXTAG_VEHICLE' line in 'explosionfx.dat' or the 'CAR_METAL' line in 'firefx.dat' & see if anything influences the speed of the texture change etc (there are certainly time & range values, just don't know if/how they influence the texture appearance). :thumbsup:

    Test any edits out on a few cars, including some vanilla ones, just in case some of your add-on's are funky etc

    Ctrl+F3 in OpenIV to search for stuff by name :thumbsup:

    explosionfx.dat:
    Main 'explosionfx.dat' is here (there are a few others (~10) in the game too, for dlc items & such, but this is the main one to edit):
    ...\mods\update\update.rpf\common\data\effects\explosionfx.dat

    firefx.dat:
    There's usually only one copy of 'firefx.dat' here:

    ...\mods\common.rpf\data\effects\firefx.dat

    but if you find a copy in 'update.rpf' here:

    ...\mods\update\update.rpf\common\data\effects\firefx.dat

    edit the 'update.rpf' one instead :thumbsup:

    "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." - Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

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