Better Crystal Effect FPS (Seath - White Dragon Breath - Crystal Golems)

What exactly does this mod change?

This mod makes several changes to different visual effects used for crystal attacks that massively improve framerate while they are present.

First, it removes the crystal shattering visual effect that occurs when crystals break (and sometimes when growing).

This effect causes a huge FPS bottleneck and removing it virtually eliminates major stuttering at the price of minor visual differences.

Second, it disables some superfluous crystal particle models used for several crystal AOE attacks.

For both Seath and the Crystal Golems, their original visual effects created an extremely high number of models which tanked the FPS even further than with just the shattering effect. This change prevents some of the models from appearing, so while they look a slightly less crowded, the FPS gained is significant enough for this to be worth it.

It also makes some minor adjustments to one of the textures used for White Dragon Breath to look slightly better because the texture is much more noticeable without the shattering crystal effect.

Bog standard "If you install this mod, play offline or you might get banned" warning.

Currently this should be compatible with most mods, however any mods that modify or add FFXs could potentially be incompatible.

In the event of incompatibility, you can manually merge the mod ffxbnd files. See Modified Files below to see which files this mod changes.

Modified Files

Seath Beam crystal effect: "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_CommonEffects.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0015291.ffx"

Seath AOE crystal effect: "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_m17.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0015293.ffx"

White Dragon Breath effect: "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_CommonEffects.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0020269.ffx"

White Dragon Breath shatter texture: "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_CommonEffects-ffxbnd\Sfx\tex\s00405.tpf"

Crystal Golem AOE effect (Darkroot): "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_m12.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0012714.ffx"

Gold Crystal Golem AOE effect (Darkroot): "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_m12.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0012711.ffx"

Crystal Golem AOE effect (Dukes Archives): "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_m17.ffxbnd\Sfx\OutputData\Main\Effect_win32\f0012714.ffx"

Gold Crystal Golem AOE effect (Dukes Archives): "DATA\sfx\FRPG_SfxBnd_m17.ffxbnd\