First off, what the heck did they do to our beloved forums! They are all weird now D: I dont like this T.T

But to the point. I would like to change some explosions. I have no clue how to. I assume its in nifskope. Like when its detonated (the explosion is created), how would I edit it so that it blows up like normal, but the smoke from it hangs around for a much longer time, instead of dissapearing after like 3 seconds like they all do. I would like my explosion, I am starting with DemoBusixplosion, to blow up, but seem all dusty and smokey for like 10-15 seconds afterwords. Since its being used for a large chunk of wall blowing it doesnt look good that after 3 seconds, you cant even tell anything blew up there. Thanks to anyone who can help me out with this, I havent a clue where to start.

Gunmaster95

With my vault explosion, I also include several of the dust cloud FX objects so there is dust around. I also 'enable' rubble piles after the explosion happens so make it look like something happened.

Well yea I am doing something similiar. The problem with dust, is its inside a building, and dust blowing around would look weird, and I would like it to fade away after like 10 seconds, which I could use a script to disable the object, but then it would just *poof* disappear and look bad. Also I am disabling nearby furniture and enabling the 'flung' version so there are visual thins to show it blew up. I would love to extend how long the smoke made by the explosions stays around, but I could cover it up with a trigger that disables the smoke once your far away I guess.

Use the dust that just slowly rises. It looks okay in a building.

You cannot 'fade' the dust, so what I did was slowly sink it into the floor by changing its Z position. It made it look like its settling.

Ooo that would work. Its on the first floor so it wont sink into another floor or anything. I will try them out and see what looks good. Thanks for the suggestions!!! Your definitly the 'blowing things up and making it look good' expert here.

Gm95

My explosion is also accompanied by radiation. I have 3 levels of it.
First is the high radiation that I enable when the explosion starts. It has a large radius.
Second is the medium radiation which I enable when the fires start to die down. It has a medium radius. (and disable the first)
Third is the low radiation which I enable when the dust is sinking. It has a small radius. (and disable the second)
When the dust has settled, I then disable the third 'low' radiation. It is a fun effect.

Yea. For my bombs that are being detonated, I have a barrel with a radiation warning on the side, and a bottomcap mine 'strapped' to the top. It actually looks pretty cool. So it makes sense mine would have radiation too. Except I just use the settings within the explosion itself to manage it. So it starts out with a medium radius, but strong radiation, and then fades out rather quickly. Like they replaces the barrels contents with explosives, but it still had some radiactive stuff in it.