Altered Projectile Trails

My take on an arbitrary collection of projectile trails and related effects.

Overview

The mod includes replacements for the following particle effects:

• Rocket trails (including the Air Strike’s unique rocket trails, plus purple Halloween rocket trail)

• Grenade trails/pulse/glow (the new pulse effect has a clearer pattern before it detonates, making a useful reference for timing pipe jumps and such)

• Stickybomb trails/pulse/glow

• Sentry rocket trails

• Flares (including the Scorch Shot’s unique flare effects)

• Jarate/Mad Milk jar trails

• Flying Guillotine trails

• Sandman ball/Wrap Assassin bauble trails

• Pyrovision bubble trails for rockets and flares (not shown in the video/screencaps).

• New to v1.2: Syringe gun syringe trails

• New to v1.2: Crusader's Crossbow projectile trail

• New to v1.2: Manmelter flare (plus new muzzleflash/idle FX)

• New to v1.4: Cow Mangler rocket trails (plus new muzzleflash, idle, and charging FX)

• New to v1.4: Righteous Bison projectile trails (plus new muzzleflash, idle, and impact FX)

• New to v1.4: Pomson projectile trails (plus new muzzleflash, idle, and impact FX)

• New to v1.4: Loose Cannon cannonball fuse, charging FX

Also included is a little bonus: an optional, alternate version of the mod that makes the flying guillotines’ trails the colors of the lesbian (RED) and trans (BLU) pride flags! (Full disclosure: I’m neither lesbian nor trans (I’m a cishet dude, lol), but I know a lotta folks who are either or both, so I thought it’d be cute to add these as a little nod. So uh… trans and lesbian rights!)

Performance Warning: Many of this mod’s effects produce upwards of twice as many particles as their vanilla counterparts. So expect at least some performance reduction, probably.

Recommended Companion Mods

[](https://gamebanana.com/mods/12457)[](https://gamebanana.com/mods/12384) [](https://gamebanana.com/mods/12457)

Potential Compatibility Issues

This mod replaces the particle file “smoke_island_volcano.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 issues with other mods that alter the same projectile particles, of course) should be minimal.

Installation

Paste the VPK of your choice into your “custom” folder in your TF2 directory.