I was gonna start working on a new muzzle flash tonight, but im having trouble deciding what it should look like. Should it be more smoke? Or how about more flamey and firey? Please help me out here. Thanks:)

I think smokey would look more realistic... but i guess thats just me.

*EDIT* Maybe a combo of both?

I don't do sprites so don't really know what is in that folder. Can you do a separate one for rifles and smg's?

On a rifle smoke definitely. On another game the seemed to almost form a smoke ring but not quite, looked kinda cool.

Smg's should have a small flame type imo, and not too bright. Can you make it is barely visible in well lighted areas and much more visible in dark?

I WISH!!! That would be sooo cool if there were separate sprites for each gun. But there isn't.:(

Hmm, well then if there is only one I would have to say smoke.

Ok. Anyone else for smoke?

yeah smoke sounds goood.

and it IS possible to give rifles a different muzzleflash if you would edit the models. its not difficult but i don't think that flashes of a rifle should look different that flashes of a machinegun or submachine-gun.

Hi CS. I think i little bit of smoke would be cool; nothing extreme though. all it needs to be a light thin wavey line that lasts for say..1.5 seconds.

As far as the flash goes, I think a very small flash in the same shape as the MGs would be nice. This flash has 4 main points coming off from it. In addition, I think it needs to be a little pointed out front in a slender fashionsort of like the way the fire is existing a jet engine. Very hard to describe but if I could draw it somehow for you to see i would. Most muzzle flashes made for the game are simply a big circle when this is not real. In shooting firearms all my life, if I shoot in the evening, the flash is long and projected far out of the end of the barrel. There is a tremedous amount of force moving at a rapid speed when exiting the muzzle, so it only makes sense to make this way in the game.

In conclusion, make a flash that extends farther out of the end of the barrel and is pointed at the end instead of a big circle that blocks vision.

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Hmmmm... I'll get to work on it right away!:)

smoke baby, smoke!

What if I just got rid of the muzzle flash altogether? Cause you know that theres already a smoke sprite underneath it. I'll be back with a pic.:)

I think there should be some kind of muzzle flash, because the gun just looks odd without it. I think it would be cool if the smoke lingered for awhile, like five or ten seconds, and slowly dissapated from a pretty thick smoke into nothing.

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that sounds like a cool idea, and its probobly possbile with the new particle system and all. there is already smoke when the gun shoots, but its only a little puff.

Yeah that would be awesome. A lil bit of smoke after the main muzzleflash would look very realistic. Goodluck! BTW Cs42886 would you happen to know why my muzzleflash, both 3rd person and 1st person dissapears right after 30-45 mins of playing? At first my muzzleflashes are fine but after 30-45 mins I can only see the little smoke because my cl_particlefx is set to 2 but no more muzzeflash. Happens everytime. Please help if you can :)

The Specialists mod has a pretty nice smoke effect in my opinion. But smoke would defenitely be cool for DoD.

Hey all,

I agree that the guns do look wierd without the flash.

Smoke would be cool but I like realism so it would have to be how it happens.

Great if you can get it to work right. Good luck

DOD's muzzle flashes are by far the best I have ever seen in a game. PEople try to change it to make it look like a flame or a small fireball which really looks crap. I would like the same muzzleflash but with alot more smoke that diffuses into the air slowly. Smoke should fly from the muzzle and the right side of the bolt. Also, separate flashes for each gun would be really cool.

Great ideas guys! I may have to sort through this stuff until I can come up with a great sprite.:) By the way Lt. Firmalo, the same thing happens to me also. I don't know what it is. Maybe its a problem with the coding.