berdel

Arma 3 is looking by far awesome!, there is only one thing always bothers me since arma 2 and OA, the particle effects of fire and smoke always look like just a lot of circles with alpha spinning around. I think the particle count can be decreased, by using better textures for the effects and adding a shader to the particles ( like in the clouds) to distort the particles, its not so expensive for performance and makes them look less synthetic.

they are expensive the way they are now, thats what I say, LOWERING the amount of particles, enhancing their texture( not necesary to increase resolution, just enhancing its look) AND adding a custom particle shader (to the really lower count particle effect) would increase the look and performance. I work with particle effects.. in other game. So really, its possible, and would increase realism by far.