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 COMBAT FX UPGRADE |
 WARBUTLER         |
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A collection of effects to make combat look better.

Building on the great work of Function-X- and Ezekiel, I've created a collection of effects that aims to breathe new life into San Andreas' combat! All without replacing your favourite effects.fxp & txd mod. This mod replaces all explosions, muzzle flashes, blood effects, fire and sparks. You can pick and choose which effects to install thanks to DK22Pac's fantastic EffectLoader.asi plugin.

===== REQUIREMENTS =====

- Silent ASI Loader by Silent (not included)
- EffectLoader by DK22Pac (included)

"VISUAL FX QUALITY" (pause menu/display setup/advanced) must be set to "MEDIUM" or higher! Otherwise the muzzle flashes won't display properly!

If this causes performance issues, try using SkyGfx or MixSets to remove dynamic shadows and/or grass.

===== RECOMMENDED =====

- IMFX by DK22Pac (not included)
- EnhanceFX by Junior_Djjr (included)

I recommend setting "ENABLE_BLOODSPOTS" to "NO" in imfx.dat, as this makes the blood effect appear too bright and saturated. 

Use EnhanceParticle by Junior_Djjr (not included) for extra blood spot textures instead. 

To get all of the muzzle flash variations, set "ENABLE_GUNFLASHES" to "YES" in imfx.dat

I also recommend opening gunflash.dat in IMFX and setting "rotating" and "smoke" to "1" (on) for all weapons.

===== INSTALLATION =====

To install all of the effects, simply extract the contents of the Combat FX Upgrade folder into your GTA San Andreas directory.

Make sure the folder path is: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas/models/effects/[effect folders here]. 

Do not put the "models" or "effects" folders in Modloader, or EffectLoader will not be able to find them.

EffectLoader and EnhanceFX should be in your main directory (Grand Theft Auto San Andreas).

If you don't like a particular effect, simply delete its folder inside "effects".

Your game will use the equivalent effect from whatever effects.fxp you have installed in your models folder.

===== CONTENTS =====

New/Improved: Explosions, muzzle flashes, blood effects, bullet impact sparks, exhaust & tire smoke, fire

Extras: Overdose Effects gun smoke, cigarette smoke, water bullet hits, tree hits with new leaf textures,
Overdose headshot effect with Project Overhaul gore textures, Remastered Effects vehicle overheat & fire (with new textures).

===== CREDITS =====

Function-X-: Original muzzle flash script
Ezekiel: Original explosion script, fire script
DK22Pac: EffectLoader, IMFX
Junior_Djjr: EnhanceFX

LennyH: Headshot gore textures

cgman at spritefx.blogspot: Explosion and smoke textures
MSGDI at Unity store: V2 Muzzle flash textures


WarButler: Compiling, texture editing, fxp script additions + fixes 