Loot Pod Semi-immersive Smoke Signals

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KNOWN ISSUES I CANNOT FIX WITH THE TOOLS AVAILABLE TO ME (AKA: do not tell me about these bugs)

- Smoke plume completely vanishes upon opening a loot pod.

- This is due to the way the developers have set up the loot pod's VFX attachment, which is something i CANNOT edit at this time. Yes it looks bad when it despawns, i hate it too.

- This is why the title says "Semi-Immersive" by the way

- Smoke Color is very dark or fully black sometimes

- This depends heavily on the time of day and the angle you are viewing the smoke relative to the sun or most prominent nearby light source.

- It's some weird quirk with the lighting engine, I can't really fix it.

Preemptive answers to questions i know some will ask based on other mods related to POI and pickups

Q: "Can you add this to regular POI like the cargo crate and bunkers?"

Explanations:

A- We still aren't sure what AH and Sony's stance on modding is at this time, but we are VERY sure what their stance on cheating is, so making mods that make it easier to find POI (and specifically super credits) is hard-banned in the modding community, and on nexus.

B- Even if i was allowed to, I'd have to find a particle unique to those types of POI i could replace, and to my knowledge there isn't one and only loot-pods have their own unique VFX.

C- Finding a POI is NOT hard, there's only a small handful of variations of them in the game, almost all of which that have medals/SC are immediately recognizable from a distance. Look around with your eyeball(s) and pay attention, you'll see them and start to remember what they look like.

Q: "If you can't make finding POI easier.. ...why are you allowed to make this???"

A: It actually makes finding POI significantly harder since there isn't a big yellow line pulsing into the sky that's visible from any point on the map, and due to how the smoke effect interacts with light, it often just looks like normal smoke from some wreck to the untrained eye.

Q: "if this makes finding resources harder.. why would i use this??"

A: Immersion and looks. Loot pods only give 1 item so they aren't terribly valuable so it's not a big loss. It's all about the aesthetic really. ..now if only it d