What on God’s green earth is this?

The various tarkov special effects are somewhat anemic, or completely missing (e.g. shooting ground with grass generates no impacts at all). HollywoodFX is a mod that represents the wholesale engoodening of special effects. Think EFT RAID. Think the Lobby Scene from The Matrix. Think John Woo movies. If your target isn’t covered in smoke, debris and sparks after emptying a mag into them, we aren’t doing it right. That being said, I don’t want to go overboard and turn it into a complete joke. The idea is to strike a nice balance.

Screenshots really don’t do this mod justice, there are a bunch of videos at the bottom of the page. NB: the videos are now quite outdated, a lot of new and high definition effects have been added. I’ll update them at some point.

Features

• High definition muzzle blasts taking into effect the muzzle device, porting, bullet powder amount, barrel length, etc.
• Tracer effects that put the New Years Eve fireworks to shame.
• High resolution, artisanal and handcrafted impacts for every single material type in the game
• Special impacts depending on camera angle, impact angle and lots of randomization to prevent repetition
• Special treatment of flesh, body armor and helmets
• Bullet energy based impact composition. The bigger the bullet, the bigger the oomph.
• Battle Ambience: lingering smoke, dust, etc for that authentic RAID vibe.
• Fully compatible with FIKA but doesn’t require it. Only installs into player setups, not the dedicated host.
• Uses billboards wherever possible to reduce the CPU impact

For even more CinemaTM, use together with my immersive and gameplay tuned 3rd Person Camera Mod.

TODO

• The effects don’t work in the hideout for some reason
• Object specific effects, e.g. gas cylinders, lamps, electrical equipment, barrels
• JSON based effect definitions to allow people to make and share presets

Thanks

There are too many to list, the whole SPT and FIKA modding community helped make this happen. Without the respective dev teams, neither SPT or FIKA would exist. To name perhaps the most influential individuals (in no particular order):

• ssh (without his SDK this mod would not exist)
• Fontaine
• Hazelify
• Goofbol
• EpicRangeTime
• jpdarkone
• RetroLogic
• A dozen or so concerned horses

…and many others who made suggestions and took time to provide feedback.

Media

TODO: Old videos are really outdated, new showcase coming soon