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vFire - Workshop Link
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Fire adds a realistic, firey experience to Garry's Mod.
Default fire is replaced by one that looks and behaves like the real thing - it grows, spreads, attaches to surfaces, animates, and burns everything (it can) to a crisp.
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Features
- Fires are spawned by igniting props and explosions
- Fires of different sizes, automatic growth and spread based on what is being burnt
- Fires grow bigger if fed with any flamable object: wood, rubber, cardboard, plastic, etc.
- Fires attach to any surface or character
- Light and glow effects
- NPCs respond to being burnt by running around screaming in pain
- Fires are affected by wind depending on their environment
- Physical fire balls
- Custom scorch decals of different sizes
- Tickrate throttling and spacial clustering for optimization purposes
Client Console Commands
- vfire_lod: Set to 0 to disable all fire LODs, 1 for automatic LODs, and 2 to force LODs on.
- vfire_enable_glows: Set to 0 to disable fire glow effects.
- vfire_enable_lights: Set to 0 to disable all fire light effects for increased performance at the cost of visual fidelity.
- vfire_light_brightness: Set the fire light brightness multiplier.
- vfire_default_visual_settings: Reset all visual settings to default values.
Server Console Commands
- vfire_spread_boost: Set the spread boost of new fires. Higher values will achieve faster, and stronger spread.
- vfire_enable_damage: Set to 0 to disable fire damage.
- vfire_damage_multiplier: Set the damage multiplier for fires, 0 disables all damage.
- vfire_enable_explosion_effects: Set to 0 to disable fancy explosion effects.
- vfire_enable_decals: Set to 0 to disable fire decals.
- vfire_decal_probability: Set the probability (a value between 0 and 1) of creating fire decals.
- vfire_enable_spread: Set to 0 to disable fire spread.
- vfire_spread_delay: Set fire spread delay in seconds - the smaller the number the faster fires will spread.
- vfire_decay_rate: Set fire decay rate, 1 is max decay rate, 0 is no decay rate.
- vfire_affect_npcs: Set to 0 to disable custom NPC behavior.
- vfire_remove_all: Remove all active fires.
- vfire_default_settings: Reset all settins to default values.
Concerned about performance?
vFire utilizes a handful of optimization techinques including spacial clustering, prioritization based server and client tickrate throttling, automatic LOD transitions, and more to maximize performance - clients are even more worry free if they set gmod_mcore_test to 1.
In case that's not enough, you can always use both the provided client and server ConVars to effectively minimize loads, and set vFire to match your requirements. Server owners are recommended to use the vfire_decay_rate setting to make fires die faster to decrease load accumulation.
+support
If it's smoother, less hard on the server qua performance and a better system than we have now, I'd definitely want to see it get implemented.
If it does not impact the servers performance in a negative way. All for it. +support
(Nov 3, 2018, 11:44 PM)Oneshott Wrote: [ -> ]If it does not impact the servers performance in a negative way. All for it. +support
Neutral
I do love the vFire mechanics
But from personal experience, a big fire can drop my stable 120fps in singleplayer down to 10fps
(Nov 3, 2018, 11:54 PM)Somali Drug Lord Wrote: [ -> ] (Nov 3, 2018, 11:44 PM)Oneshott Wrote: [ -> ]If it does not impact the servers performance in a negative way. All for it. +support
(Nov 3, 2018, 11:44 PM)Oneshott Wrote: [ -> ]If it does not impact the servers performance in a negative way. All for it. +support
(Nov 3, 2018, 11:36 PM)Wesley Lawrence Wrote: [ -> ]+support
If it's smoother, less hard on the server qua performance and a better system than we have now, I'd definitely want to see it get implemented.
+Support if we utilised some of the server commands the dev makes available to minimise performance impact
Just look at it
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Ive tried this mod in singleplayer, and when it started spreading or there were more than 2 fires it can impact performance, so if its possible to reduce lag, then why not!
For now I'm mostly towards -support / neutral
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