Altered Explosions & Building FX

Overview

Explosion particle replacements include:

• Standard explosion

• Underwater explosion

• Detonator explosion

• Flare impact FX

• Rocket/sticky jumper explosion

• Building explosion

• New to v1.2: Bombinomicon explosion (incl. purple Halloween variant)

• New to v1.3: Sapper destroyed explosion

• New to v1.3: Cow Mangler explosions

Building particle replacements include:

• Building damage FX

• Building gib FX

• Sapper FX

• Wrench hit FX (incl. unique effects for construction boost hits, upgrade hits, and repair hits)

Explosions/building FX can be installed together or individually, in case you only want one and not the other.

Performance Warning: Many of this mod’s effects are more particle-heavy/expensive than the game's standard particles (especially the underwater explosion, probably). So expect at least some performance reduction.

Recommended Companion Mods

[](https://gamebanana.com/mods/12384) [](https://gamebanana.com/mods/12420)

Potential Compatibility Issues

This mod replaces the particle file “passtime.pcf” (within which all of the modified particles are packaged). Otherwise, this mod doesn’t replace any pre-existing vanilla files, so compatibility issues (besides with other mods that alter the same particle effects, of course) should be minimal.

Installation

Paste the VPK of your choice into your “custom” folder in your TF2 directory. See the README for more details.