Help regarding mortar explosion

[Immanent]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible (and I would like some assistance) in reducing the duration of the mortar explosion, because:
1st: it causes my fps to drop severely
2nd: it blocks out whoever is within a 3ish meter radius or so from my screen
3rd: lingers too damn long.

Any help would be appreciated,
if you can't contribute, don't criticize or hate.

Thanks in advanced!

 

[Abandoned]

But all that stuff makes the mortar look badass! D:

 

[Immanent]

But all that stuff makes the mortar look badass! D:

Yes that's true, but that's the main reason why I can't perform to my maximum potential at SaH. My fps just drops from steady 100s to 10s, and it's like watching a slide show...
I also play in legions lite, even though normal legions makes legions look badass! D:

 

[Voltage]

I support this, I hate it too when my screen looks like it's having a seizure when mortars start getting spammed. 5 mortar explosions should equal to the size of explosion there is now of 1 mortar.

I am not saying 'Take down the damage', just lessen that visual green lag monster of a explosion!

 

[PureWhoopAss]

We can try to scale it down a bit but I'm not sure how far it will go without looking realistic. If all else, you have to learn to live an adapt, It's quite useful for screening when your a HOF. There shouldn't be more then one or two mortar explosions... obviously if theres 5 its not the mortars fault, its too many fatmen.

As far as your lag is concern... it isn't lag. To many people think that just because they freeze a little its lag, more then likely your computer graphics card or processor is having trouble calculating and/or rendering all the things in the game.

oh and another thing. The mortar explosion is completely moddable.. just tone down the alpha layer in the mtr_grn3b.dds file for the smoke and for the explosion texture just alter mortarblast.png by turning opacity down.... problem solved.

 

[Voltage]

I was saying, that the size of the massive explosion now should be what it looks like at the explosion of 5 mortars.

Just lower the explosion size a tad, just a bit so it doesn't look like tear gas blocking the view.

 

[PureWhoopAss]

well actually the explosion texture is actually smaller then the real damage area.. the damage area is about 30 meters.. the texture is fairly close to that as well. Theres one particle that very slim to make it look like its emitting explosion out the shell. You can make the explosion more smooth by downloading my smooth fix on mod forums.