Kinetic VFX

Kinetic VFX is part of the Kinetic family of mods. Kinetic SFX does the same for what you hear; the two are made to work together:
https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/B076785601A267E3-KineticSFX

Kinetic VFX makes combat look and feel like it hits: gunfire, tracers, bullet impacts, explosions, fires and wrecks, plus suppression when rounds land close. Everything follows how the real thing behaves: no lens flares, no bloom, no film grain, nothing cartoonish. Every effect has its own slider.

GUNFIRE
- Muzzle flashes that vary shot to shot and scale with the calibre, restrained by day
- Muzzle gas jetting the side smoke out; at night now and then a few grains of burning powder
- Dust from low and prone muzzles, launcher backblast and vehicle cannons, matched to the ground
- Smoke that builds in long bursts, a smoking barrel after, steam off a hot barrel in rain
- A suppressor's first shot after a pause pops at the can; at night a machine-gun barrel glows dull red after a long string of fire
- Grass whipped by the muzzle blast, nearby bushes swaying

TRACERS
- A burning, flickering glow on every tracer's head with a white-hot core, lighting a little way out of the barrel and sputtering out when burnt
- Visible far off, brighter by day, with a light on the ground and walls around it
- A tracer that strikes before it has burnt out glows where it lies for a moment
- Works with any mod's tracer rounds (no ammo files replaced)

IMPACTS
- By surface: dirt and clods off soil and grass, chips and powder off stone and concrete, brick dust, wood splinters, with dust drifting off in the wind
- Sparks off metal and armour, the odd spark off stone, ricochets
- Mud off wet ground, dust hanging where a machine gun keeps hitting

EXPLOSIONS
- Sized by the explosive's real charge, so other mods' grenades, rockets, shells and mines fit too
- A burst of dark smoke, a spray of sparks and a bigger fireball
- The pressure wave arriving at the speed of sound: a jolt and a brief blur; a shell's shock front as a split-second bend in the air
- Grass pressed flat, trees and bushes swinging, a ring of dust racing out, debris raining back, smoke hanging afterwards
- Dust shaken off roofs and walls, grit falling from the ceiling indoors
- Longer-lasting scorch marks, smouldering craters; blasts in water with spray, a racing ring and a silt stain

FIRES AND WRECKS
- Wrecks burn and smoulder far longer (you choose how long) under smoke that ages from black to grey, with embers and flare-ups
- Burning fuel pools; ammunition cooking off with pops, stray tracers and secondary blasts (no damage)
- On dry days grass fires that creep downwind (looks only); heat shimmer over fires and hot barrels

THE BATTLEFIELD
- Battle haze where a fight goes on; smoke and dust lit properly by fires and flashes, shaped by wind, rain and fog
- Helicopter downwash, dust trails behind vehicles, illumination flares that swing and sputter out

ON YOUR SCREEN (only you see these)
- Suppression: blur, colour loss and shake; concussion and dirt on the screen from close blasts
- Tunnel vision and a heartbeat under heavy fire, a flinch when you're hit, lost night vision after a bright flash
- Optional aim tremor under fire (off by default)

SETTINGS
- A "Kinetic VFX" tab in Settings: a slider for every effect (0-300%), presets, and a Look: Realistic or Cinematic (bigger, thicker, brighter; still no lens or screen effects)
- Performance: Potato, Low, Medium, High (as tuned) or I Want It All; lower levels trim the costliest effects first
- The /fx chat command and Documents\My Games\ArmaReforger\profile\KineticVFX.txt
- A frame-rate guard trims Kinetic VFX's own farthest effects when the game drops below 30 fps (adjustable)

MULTIPLAYER
- Single player, player-hosted and dedicated servers (the server has to load it). Each player's game draws the effects with their own settings. No changes to damage, ballistics or the AI.

COMPATIBILITY
- Needs only the base game and replaces no game files. Played on 1.9 with Shrapnel, Improved Blood Effect and Congos Dynamic Lights.
- ReFX - Effects Enhancement and Spectral Tracers aren't needed: their effects are built in. If either is loaded, Kinetic VFX switches off its own version of their effects so nothing doubles up.
- RHS: Status Quo's big guns will follow once RHS is updated for 1.9.
- Works together with Kinetic SFX (link at the top) and its optional add-on Kinetic SFX - Vanilla Guns:
  https://reforger.armaplatform.com/workshop/2EA7C1F7837DDECF-KineticSFX-VanillaGuns

Made for Arma Reforger 1.9.
Made with the help of Opus 5.5. If this is an issue for you, fair enough don't use the mod.