Dynamic Effects Forge

A high-performance particle engine featuring custom physics, volumetric light effects, dynamic shadows, and much more.

📜 Core Features

★ Overrides vanilla explosions with multi-stage, volumetric particle sequences.
★ Smoke dynamically reacts to the sun's position, casting rich, ambient color palettes.
★ Particles can have advanced physics features like vortex paths, collision and bouncing off walls.
★ Fires spawn glowing embers and flickering lights.
★ Highly optimized framework. Mod settings allow full modularity, letting you customize everything from maximum performance to the highest visual quality.
★ A cozy Air Humidifier with mild beauty, cleanliness, meditation focus, and an in-game mod debugging tool.
★ All effects can be built purely with XML, allowing for easy expansions.

📦 Performance and Compatibility

⚙ Safe to add or remove mid-game. Removing it will cause a one-time error for existing modded buildings (like humidifiers), which resolves after your next save.

⚙ Harmony patches only affect visuals and can be toggled off entirely in the mod settings if desired.

⚙ Everything is fully moddable via XML, complete with tips, examples and existing patches in the files for easy expansion. I will not be writing compatibility patches for individual fire buildings.

By default, this mod auto-patches every building using the vanilla fire overlay comp. If a modded fire building avoids using that vanilla comp or misuses it, it is inherently not built for compatibility, and I do not have the bandwidth to patch around those design choices.

However, I am happy to support anyone who wants to make their own patch. If you have questions about using the effects, feel free to ask. I am even open to making assembly-level framework changes to support your community patches if they are feasible and I have the free time.

⚙ Incompatible with Blast Forge. This mod serves as its optimized, expanded replacement. (This is the only known hard incompatibility).

⚙ Using this alongside other explosion-effect mods likely won't cause crashes, but it may result in performance lag or weird visual overlapping.

⚙ Due to the sheer volume of mods out there, I cannot and won't answer "Is it compatible with X?" questions (it's compatible with CE:|). I have done my best to ensure general compatibility by default. Please test it yourself; if you find a genuine bug, report it in detail and I'll look into it when I have time.

🚧 Debugging, Modding & Known Issues

🔨 You can use the "Reload Forge Defs" button on the humidifier to instantly hot-reload all effects from your XML and observe the change without closing the game.

🔨 The Air Humidifier's "Test Effect" debug tool cannot preview building-attached effects (Flamme and Mist). To experiment with these, simply observe the mist on the humidifier itself or the flames on a campfire.

🔨 It's very easy to add any visual effect to any building you'd like. You can check how i made it for the air humidifier. What you need is to add the comp to the building like:

Mist
false

And define the effect like:


Mist

...


✒️ My other mods:

Anti-Blight and Firefoam Dispensers
Circuit Breaker
Shared Joys
Throw Him to the Floor