OVERVIEW

• An fx decl is found inside generated/decls/fx/
• each fx decl is made of n elements
• each element can be the following type
  • FX_PARTICLE
    • bread and butter of all FX you'll encounter, it calls on a particle decl that contains particlestage elements or custom elements defined to that particular particle decl
  • FX_LIGHT
  • FX_DECAL
    • spawns 3d models such as rocks, smoke, or other simple shapes
  • FX_MODEL
    • used for things like the tyrant and baron sword effects
  • FX_SOUND
  • FX_SCREEN_SHAKE
  • FX_CONTROLLER_SHAKE
  • FX_RENDERPARM
    • effects such as the khan/blood maykr and doomhunter shields
  • FX_BLENDED_OPACITY
  • FX_ENV_OVERRIDE
  • FX_FLARE
  • FX_BLUR_RADIAL
  • FX_BLUR_GAUSSIAN
  • FX_DEPTH_OF_FIELD
  • FX_FOV
  • FX_RIBBON_2
  • FX_HURT_TRIGGER
  • FX_DESTRUCTIBLE
  • FX_SCREEN_FLASH
  • FX_SCREEN_OVERLAY
  • FX_SCREEN_OVERLAY_ANIMATED_MASK
  • FX_SCREEN_DISTORTION
  • FX_SCREEN_VIGNETTE
  • FX_LIGHT_SCATTERING_VOLUME
    • useful for smoke bomb effects that are computationally cheap to create