🌠ParticlesPlus - improved effects for KCD2
This mod improves the visual effects in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: somewhere there are more visual effects, somewhere they are clearer, and somewhere they just look more logical. It's not a revolution, but it's a noticeable upgrade that makes the game a bit more atmospheric.
I didn't just change the number of particles, I reconfigured their behavior, made the effects smoother and more natural, added child effects for more realism. All this without a big blow to performance.
⚙️Mod Status
This mod was developed alone, without any teams or studios. Everything from particle customization to testing is handmade and done with heart. If something is wrong - write me, I will finish it!🆕NEW:
- 💢 Blood streams on hits (melee and arrows) - blood leaves a trail.
- 🎨 Custom blood texture - fits well into the environment, with a wet effect.
- 🌟 Flash of light and sparks when hitting (armor, metal, swords, arrows).
- 💨 Smoke when swords collide.
- 👣 Footprints of player and NPS shoes on different surfaces.
- 👣 Dust and grass effects when walking on different types of ground (player and NPS).
- 🐎 Horse hoofprints (player and NPS).
- 🐎 Dust from horses' hooves when walking, running and galloping.
- 💦 Water effects when horses (player and NPS) interact with water.
- 🕯️ Atmospheric smoke from candles - cozy visuals.
- 🔥 Added smoke and sparks from torches. Bonfires, hearths and torches became more realistic.
- 👥 NPCs now leave dust when sawing, wood cutting optimization.
🔧IMPROVED:🔄Other:
- 🩸 Improved the visual effects of blood.
- 🩸 Increased the lifespan of blood trails 900 seconds.
- 🔄 Almost all blood, hit and dust effects have been redesigned from scratch.
- ⚒️ In the forge, sparks improved, fire optimized, refraction (light refraction) added.
- 🧪 In alchemy - fire has improved, the appearance of fire has been fixed.
- 💦 Improved foam and splashes in small streams.
- 🛀 Steam in baths became denser and more natural, fixed flickering.
- 🎇 Particle behavior improved - it became more stable and natural.
📌 If you like, don't forget to leave an Endorsements. It's a best motivation for further improvements!😉
- 🎇 Changed behavior of most particles - visually cleaner, technically more stable.
- ⚙️ Many small changes in the behavior of effects and partials to increase realism.
📋What's planned
After version 1.5.0, updates will be less frequent due to time constraints. However, I will still keep an eye out for any unfinished or untouched parts - and if something catches my/your attention, I will tweak or improve it.
🖥Installation
Before installing, make sure you uninstall other mods that change the effects of the game. Below the description there is a list of files that will change the mod.
Unpack the archive, move or copy the unpacked folder to the Mods folder of the game (if it does not exist - create it).
Example of how the path to the mod will look like: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\KingdomComeDeliverance2\Mods\ParticlesPlus
🗄Game files that have been modified
📌 Libs\Particles\collisions.xml - responsible for collisions (weapons, projectiles, blood effects, destruction).
📌 Libs\Particles\particles_water.xml - responsible for visual effects of water (foam, splashes).
📌 Libs\Particles\Particles\professions.xml - contains effects related to professions (for example, working in a forge).
📌 Libs\Particles\Particles\workbehaviors.xml - NPC work effects.
📌 Libs\Particles\particles_woodcutting.xml - woodcutting effects for NPCs.
📌 Libs\Particles\WH_Particels.xml - global effects for the environment and some work effects for the main character.
📌 Libs\MaterialEffects\FXLibs\footsteps_horse_npc.xml - Horse effects for npcs.
📌 Libs\MaterialEffects\FXLibs\footsteps_horse_player - The effects of horses on the player.
⚠️ Important: these files are replaced in my mod. If you have other mods installed that change these same effects, there may be conflicts.
📌From the author
Write more reviews! What do you like, what annoys you, what effects catch your eye most often? The more reviews I get, the better the mod will become. Your ideas will help make ParticlesPlus even better!