Settings

Settings

GameData/VolumetricExplosions/PluginData/settings.cfg:

(Until 0.3.1 the file was beside the library. The game reads any .cfg there as one of its own configs, so every change to a setting made the game's next start a slow one: with ModuleManager installed, every config is worked out again and every part's drag measured again. The game does not look into PluginData. A file found in the old place is moved, once, with what was set in it.)

Setting	Default	Meaning
enabled	true	false brings the stock explosions back
quality	1.0	number of particles, and how finely the smoke is stepped through: 0.2 (light) to 3 (heavy)
max_particles	30000	most particles alive in the scene at once
size	1.0	how big explosions are, 0.3 to 3
smoke	1.0	how long smoke hangs in the air, 0 (none) to 4
breeze	as it comes	when there is a wind for smoke to drift on: still (never, whatever the weather), as it comes (still nine times in ten, mostly a light air otherwise, a strong wind about one time in five hundred; or the weather mod's wind where there is one), always some (never still, the rest as above)
wind	1.0	how strong that wind is, made up or the weather's: 0 (always still air) to 4
detail	0.6	how deeply the billows are cut into the edge of the smoke, 0 (smooth) to 1
thick	1.6	how thick the smoke is, 0.3 (thin) to 4
volume	true	false draws soft sprites even where the volume would work
half	true	draw the volume with half as many pixels each way and enlarge it; false draws it at the screen's full size
thin	2.0	smoke too thin to see is not drawn: how many 255ths of what is behind it a line of sight's smoke may hide, at the very most, before any of it is drawn. 0 (all of it is drawn) to 8
light	true	explosions light the ground and the wreck around them
debris	true	pieces of the destroyed parts
shockwave	true	the shock front of a blast, in air
bend	1.0	how strongly a shock front bends the picture and jolts the camera, 0 to 2
shake	true	false: a shock front reaching the camera leaves the camera alone
sound_travels	true	the bang is heard when its sound gets to the camera (a second for every 340 metres at sea level on Kerbin), as the shock front does. false: on the instant, as the game has it
scorch	true	burn marks
shadows	true	smoke throws its shadow on what is under it, in sunlight (0.5.0; OpenGL only, as the volume is)
push	true	ships and engine exhaust push smoke about
predict	true	(0.5.0) the way each thing moving through smoke is about to go is looked ahead along for half a second, and the smoke in its way split into smaller puffs before it gets there, so that it pushes aside finer smoke
wakes	true	(0.5.0) what goes through smoke leaves a tunnel in it, drawn at the pixel, sharp at first and filling in again (OpenGL only, as the volume is)
vortices	true	(0.5.0) the air behind what goes through smoke is left turning and carries the smoke round: eddies turning one way and the other behind blunt things, two sinking tubes behind wings
collide	true	smoke does not pass through the ground, buildings or ships
threads	0	worker threads to use, for moving the particles and (without the library) for making the grid; 0 picks by itself
native	true	make the grids with the mod's library where there is one; false always uses the slower C# (the picture is the same)
log	false	write how each explosion was read (what, why, where) to KSP.log

Changes take effect at the next flight.