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[WxTech]

In the course of rationalizing the behavior of ground and sea damage smokes to a common standard, I find myself unable to ID the effect for damage to such ship parts as AA guns. In my 4.12.2 modact 5.3 game, this damage is indicated with a cartoonishly thin, straight-line smoke of near-constant width and short duration.

Can anyone tell me this effect's name and location? (I'll probably slap my forehead upon being informed!    )

Thanks!

[added in EDIT]

Turns out I didn't copy over to my game *all* extracted effect files. The files in question are located in Effects/Smokes/
and are named:

SmokeGunTiny.eff, SmokeGunSmall.eff, SmokeGunMedium.eff, SmokeGunLarge.eff and SmokeGunHuge.eff.

The complementary fire effects are named the same, but with "Fire" added to the end.

[WxTech]

I've done a search through all class files for instances of effects (".eff"); no joy here. No extracted effects seem to apply.

Could it be the case that there are effects pointed to only through a .dll, and so we can not know their name/location? Or might it be that not every last effect has been successfully identified/extracted?

[vpmedia]

I only have a filelist for 4.10 effects, but TD changed effects around in 4.12 so I could not extract all the eff files with this outdated sfs extarctor list.

[WxTech]

That puts the issue into better perspective. I suppose it would be something of a crap shoot trying to guess the effect's name/location and plugging it into the files list, eh.

Am I correct in suspecting that some effects might be assigned outside of class files, such as in a .dll perhaps? Which could be why I'm not finding any otherwise 'unknown' effect name turning up in any of the ship related classes?

[WxTech]

If logic were a guide, this new effect would likely reside in Effects/Smokes/.

Potential names might be:

ShipGunDamage.eff
ShipGunDamageSmoke.eff

Or some such like variants? I should try this...

[WxTech]

It turns out I didn't copy over to my game *all* extracted effect files. The files in question are located in Effects/Smokes/
and are named:

SmokeGunTiny.eff, SmokeGunSmall.eff, SmokeGunMedium.eff, SmokeGunLarge.eff and SmokeGunHuge.eff.

The complementary fire effects are named the same, but with "Fire" added to the end.

I made changes and got the desired results.