PHoD NEW VFX Placeables

182 ALL-NEW VFX PLACEABLES FOR NWN!

Recently, in a dramatic incident that shocked a nation, PHoD fell off his chair! Again.
The reason this time was that whilst creating a Module, he had placed YET ANOTHER of BioWare's "Magic Sparks" over an Arcane Thingy and became distressed at how it looked just like all those other "Magic Sparks" Placeables.
Thus, armed with Dribbling Insanity, No Knowledge of What He Was Doing and a rabid desire to be strange, he started trying to create Top Secret New VFX on an industrial scale.

And now, Awesomely Rubbish Productions are proud (actually quite ashamed) to present the results of PHoD taking innocent little Magic Sparks and Shafts of Light and things and nailing them together into hideous hybrids of devastating size and power... Yes, in terms of NWN VFX, this is the Apocalypse!

Contained in this deceptively microscopic Hak are no less than 182 All New VFX Placeables, many of which are of an unprecedented scale and magnitude, brought to the screen in epic, earth-shaking glory by...

Well, you get the idea. I've been messing about with emitters, adding emitters to other emitters, enlarging emitters, turning emitters upside down, hitting emitters with big bricks... the usual PHoD farcical approach to all things.
Attack it. Attack it again. Bounce off and hide in a bush for a while. Attack it again until it's dead.
These VFX are all now firmly dead and can thus be thrown at you, the Community, just in case some of you also want some wildly outrageous alternatives to normal, polite, well behaved VFX.

WHAT YOU GET:-

Fifi, fetch me the VFX List, please... OUCH! Rrrgh... She doesn't like it when I remember to say please, for then she has no legitimate excuse to throw unlikely objects at me and so must simply reveal her true, inner psychosis... actually, that should be psychoses, plural.

As has been mentioned, there are 182 of these huge, glowing, swirling, oscillating, gyrating, floating, wibbling things, FAR, FAR more than you can see in the Screenshots. Most come in eight different colours and most have been cunningly mutilated so as I only use standard BioWare FX Textures (though in unlikely ways), thus keeping Hak size to absolute minimum.
In this instance, the Screenshots really can't show the VFX properly because, obviously, they flash and whirl and emit stuff and all that sort of thing which a still image cannot convey to save its life. They should give you a general idea though...

HOWEVER! To combat this lack of appropriate Screenshots, you will find the VERY FIRST chromium-plated, fully-illuminated, genuine-accessory PHoD Rubbish Demo Module instead!
I have created a very small Demonstration Module which I recommend you try out as it will familiarize you with all the new VFX and provide hints, tips and generally unhelpful sarcasm including some very important notes on usage. Not that you couldn't figure it all out for yourselves through trial and error, but I couldn't resist...

The Module is called "THE CURSE OF FREAKISH STUPIDITY" and you will find it to be pretty much what you expect it to be, given its author's unquestionable insanity.
Within the Module, you will venture through not-at-all exciting locations such as the "Murky Canyon of Certain Death", "Temple of Ultimate Idiocy", "Sanctum of Outrageous Garbage", "Sewer of Hideous Pungency" and more! You will meet with an array of Deranged Lunatic NPCs, most of whom are overbearing, rude, generally degenerate and above all UTTERLY MAD!
You should go and talk to them all though, and thus learn the vital secrets of the PHoD New VFX from them... if you can persuade them to impart actual information instead of ranting like supreme mentals.

The Module requires NWN1 (obviously) plus both expansions and the 1.69 Patch... Oh, and also it requires you to put the PHoD_NEW_VFX Hak into your hak folder. Naturally.

On decompressing the rubbish package, you should find three items, "PHoD_NEW_VFX" which is the hak, to be placed in the hak folder, "PHoD_FX_List" which is a handy ERF included for anyone who wants to throw these VFX into a test module and mess around with them (put it in your erf folder) and the last, of course, is the "Curse of Freakish Stupidity" Module which, all together now, goes in the modules folder.

I'd recommend playing the Module with the camera angle at 'ground level' following behind the PC as this is the best way to view the VFX and get the most from such proper tutorial material as there actually is.

PS:- Remember the Module doesn't have any Haks besides the VFX so don't go trying to use a PC with piles of custom gear. There's no combat so you can safely just create a new, hopelessly weak character. Just don't attack any of the NPC Loonies or they will kill you.

So, for anyone who has been wanting some really dramatic and outrageously large magical VFX stuff... PARTY ON!

UPDATE ONE
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The First Update for this Hak continues the theme of whopping great Glowing Things, naturally enough. Amongst the new material are huge, fiery Pentagram glyphs and the Hideously Mysterious Eye of Erebus, Gehenna, Tartarus (or some other insalubrious part of Hell) in assorted colours and sizes. You also get those "star" things shown with the Elemental Pillars I put in the PHoD Obelisks and Pyramids Hak, plus assorted other luminous globules and things that look a bit like shoals of emaciated herring and sort of clusters of humongous pufferfish...

The Update Screenshots give you a better idea of the new content than me dribbling rabidly, so just observe those.

Also, there are a few fixes to a few of the Old New VFX - I like how farcically self-contradictory that sounds - that could become tinted by Area lighting and thus looked rubbish under certain conditions. No Model names have been altered, so just chuck these versions into whatever you had the old ones in and overwrite them.

Also also, the Rubbish Demo Module has been UPDATED too, to show full examples of all the New New VFX as well as the older ones. Look out for a New Area and assorted New Lunatics who will talk nonsense including the mind-alteringly strange presence of... The Astounding Tree Confuser!

UPDATE TWO
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Suddenly, hideously, PHoD Updated the Rubbish VFX Hak a second time, adding yet more Ludicrous, Outrageously Proportioned, Seething Luminous Things.
Continuing the theme of Gargantuan Glowing Nonsense, the Shabby and Deluded Hyena Idiot has now added a Yet Even Newer Array of Newer Newer New VFX to the Hak, these including the farcical "River of Souls" which manages to cavort its epic way across more than 12 Tiles of any Area it is placed in! Also, there are stupidly enormous bursts of multi-coloured Sparks, eruptions of Mutant Starfish, assorted light beams for the construction of Laser Fences, Forcefields, etc, and the decidedly quirky and unusual "Furies" which are no such thing...
The new Screenshots give you some clue of what you're up against but, as before, to get a real idea of these new emitters emitting, you should check the Further Updated "CURSE OF FREAKISH STUPIDITY" Module which now contains Six Areas and plentiful examples of all the New Stuff, plus, of course, some New Lunatic NPCs to tell you about it, explain the disastrous limitations of "CompactaCow Technology" and ponder the dirtily pungent Invasion of the Invisible Lemming Hordes from... wherever it is they may or may not be coming from...

As always, PHoD hopes you enjoy these daft new luminous things and can find useful places for them in your Modules.
And remember, Diseased Baboons can strike at any time!