About this mod
Pretty Particles mod includes over 30 VFX assets to spawn for VP and video purposes, including Character FX for blood, sweat and dirt.
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PRETTY PARTICLES
This is a mod to create gorgeous virtual photograph and videos with. You can spawn more than 30 vfx assets, including character filth at different intensities of filthiness and even combine blood, sweat, and dirt. It includes a 'clean' spell as well so you don't need to use soap!
!!Please read everything before you use!!
Installation: drop pak into BG3mm or BG3 mod folder.
File MUST be near top of load order. If you are missing VFX this is why.
If you are using the in-game mod manager: it's possible that it is forcing the mod to be in the wrong load order - you'll have to uncheck almost
all the mods, and toggle them back on one-by-one and make sure Pretty Particles is one of the first few toggled to fix the load order, or use BG3MM by
saving your load order and exporting back into the game before you launch the app.
How To Use:
- Remember to apply the effect to an item in your scene. Gold coins work perfect since it's easy to hide in photos. If you use more than 1 item you'll spawn more particles.
- You must use a vanilla race character to spawn assets; this is not setup for custom races.
- It is ideal to spawn the effect off 1 item. If you want more vfx, use more than 1 item in a scene.
- This uses concentration, so at the moment it is scripted so 1 character can concentrate on 1 spell at a time. This does not apply to character filth vfx.
- Place an item in the world.
- Hold down left-mouse-click on item and use scroll wheel to rotate item to perfectly place fx.
- Assets using models despawn faster now: pumpkins, tentacles, flowers
- Petals and Leaves are reactivated - these are no longer broken.
- Reorganized spell hot bar. Readjusted some icons.
- Removed concentration from Pretty Filth; you can now apply character fx interchangeably without breaking concentration with PP fx.
- Removed sfx from tentacles.
- Some items don't work - I believe this is due to a hotfix Larian had put out.
- Implement for MCM usage - I just recently discovered this fascinating tool. I'm currently working on scripts for it. I'll still provide a spell version of the mod and a MCM version.
Caveats/Known Issues:
- You must use 1 item in your scene to attach the spell to.
- Spells are not in custom race hotbar, only works with vanilla races.
- If you don't see VFX spawning, please check your load order! It must be near top
- Sweat full-body works on companions/origins, not custom bodies if using unique-tav, this is due to missing dependencies the character fx rely on. Can use Kaz Virtual Tav mod instead.
- WISPS, Tentacles, Fireworks Gold and Waterfall Circle, work best when attached to 1 item.
- Some items do not work; this is still known. I know the cause, just need to figure out a fix/work around.
What the spells container will look like in your hotbar:

List of spells:

For Modders:
!! Please do not rip my assets and hard work that went into this mod. I spend a lot of time, love and care making each asset specifically for VP purposes. If you have suggestions or requests, please let me know - this is an ongoing project. A lot of the work in this mod was self-taught and reversed engineered with the BG3 toolkit, Allspark Editor, and documented by me so I can get it to work for cines. If you have a question you are welcome to message me.
I would love to see your photos and vids too! You can tag me on your socials if you'd like: @scarstarion (x/twitter, bsky, reddit, etc).
My Trello Board for this mod and what is expected for future assets.
If you have VFX requests/what you wish to see please leave a comment or join my discord: Scar's Coffin Discord