You have my endorsement comrade. Since I rolled playable crusader pistol, I am get to use fire reciever to heal, but that fireball flashing makes it so awful to shoot this gun while aiming down the sight. Literally lifesaving! Thank you!
The Cryo is fixed but the Pyro smoke is still there. I tried manual install and through a manager and no dice. Update: Ive tried changing the load order but it's just not making any changes. Update #2: When I shoot I get the Exclamation mark Error symbol. I'm gonna keep toying with it.
Edit: I see what you mean with the exclamation mark. I didn't test this in third person and didn't notice it popping up. I basically replaced the .nif files for the muzzle flashes with empty files. The game doesn't recognize them as usable files, apparently, and throws up the missing/broken file icon. Nothing on your end, I gotta make them proper .nif files.
The muzzle flash file for the pyro didn't include the soft smoke coming off of it, I'm gonna try to figure that out, too.
I hate to make it about what I want but the muzzle flashes are fine. The smoke effect that is always rising off the barrel is what blocks the sights. I'm not sure if the two are linked but keep the muzzle flash if possible. It's look weird otherwise.
I've been looking into removing the smoke for the last 2 hours, but I don't think it's possible at the moment. I was able to remove the muzzle flashes because they were separate .nif files and I just removed the content with NifSkope (at least got that working without the exclamation mark, even if it wasn't what you wanted). However, Nifskope wasn't updated in a while and seems to struggle with the .nif of the receiver, which is where the smoke effect is attached to. I can't edit this file and save it at all. It just corrupts, no matter what little I change. Even changing somethin, reverting the change and then saving corrupts the file.
There are entries relating to the texture used for the effect, but replacing those didn't work, either. My guess is that the game doesn't load any mod's effect files as every other mod if found changing things like this always just replaces .nif files, never effect textures.
Did you say it worked for the Cryo mod? I uploaded a version that does just that, if it helps.
Edit: I found a workaround. I can just replace the receiver with the default model. It then looks like the default gun, but the smoke is gone and the muzzle effects are still there. I think this is as good as it gets atm.
So, the cryo barrel doesn't actually have any persistent smoke coming off of it, that's just the pyro one. I'll upload a version that only replaces that. If that doesn't satisfy your need, I'll also upload a few other options and combinations. Use "Crusader Remove Pyro Smoke" from the optional files section.
For anyone interested: NifSkope 2 dev 8 can't seem to handle BSLightingShaderProperty entries correctly in .nif files for Fallout 76. It saves fine when there's only one entry and if that entry is a child of the bottommost BSTriShape. Still doesn't even display that part of the gun correctly ingame, but that's as far as I got with this.
Not that I'm aware of. The smoke effect is attached to the receiver model. I can't edit that model with the tools at my disposal (file corrupts on saving due to a problem with BSLightingShaderProperty entries), as they need updating (NifSkope - which hasn't happened in a few years now). Trying to replace the effect textures doesn't work, either. The game just seems to default to the one's in the main archive files, which will be checked against the server versions, so not directly editable without risk.
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Update: Ive tried changing the load order but it's just not making any changes.
Update #2: When I shoot I get the Exclamation mark Error symbol. I'm gonna keep toying with it.
Edit: I see what you mean with the exclamation mark. I didn't test this in third person and didn't notice it popping up. I basically replaced the .nif files for the muzzle flashes with empty files. The game doesn't recognize them as usable files, apparently, and throws up the missing/broken file icon. Nothing on your end, I gotta make them proper .nif files.
The muzzle flash file for the pyro didn't include the soft smoke coming off of it, I'm gonna try to figure that out, too.
I've been looking into removing the smoke for the last 2 hours, but I don't think it's possible at the moment. I was able to remove the muzzle flashes because they were separate .nif files and I just removed the content with NifSkope (at least got that working without the exclamation mark, even if it wasn't what you wanted). However, Nifskope wasn't updated in a while and seems to struggle with the .nif of the receiver, which is where the smoke effect is attached to. I can't edit this file and save it at all. It just corrupts, no matter what little I change. Even changing somethin, reverting the change and then saving corrupts the file.
Edit: I found a workaround. I can just replace the receiver with the default model. It then looks like the default gun, but the smoke is gone and the muzzle effects are still there. I think this is as good as it gets atm.There are entries relating to the texture used for the effect, but replacing those didn't work, either. My guess is that the game doesn't load any mod's effect files as every other mod if found changing things like this always just replaces .nif files, never effect textures.
Did you say it worked for the Cryo mod? I uploaded a version that does just that, if it helps.
So, the cryo barrel doesn't actually have any persistent smoke coming off of it, that's just the pyro one. I'll upload a version that only replaces that. If that doesn't satisfy your need, I'll also upload a few other options and combinations. Use "Crusader Remove Pyro Smoke" from the optional files section.
For anyone interested: NifSkope 2 dev 8 can't seem to handle BSLightingShaderProperty entries correctly in .nif files for Fallout 76. It saves fine when there's only one entry and if that entry is a child of the bottommost BSTriShape. Still doesn't even display that part of the gun correctly ingame, but that's as far as I got with this.