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Hello I added a custom Trail effect for the rocket launcher but I can see the effect only for ~20 meters.
How can I change this?

First, make sure your video settings are all the way up.
Then open your effect in Particle Editor and play with the LOD settings of the first emitter. See if that works.

Thank you.
But do you have an idea what I have to change?

The LOD settings. There's a Max LOD field and a Min LOD field. I can't remember if you want to move Max LOD up or Min LOD down... Try both and let me know what you find.

Where can I find this?There is Spark_Emitter,Flare,ChargeGlow,Flare again,ChargeGlow again,Flare again and Smoke

Left click on whichever one is listed first. In the properties view on the bottom left, there are two text boxes - Min LOD and Max LOD.

ok,sry I´m working for the first time with PE

No problem. Sorry I can't be more specific, I can't remember which one you need to change to make it visible from longer distances.

Okay np,I see in the box is only LOD group.
Can I do something with this?

Which PE fix are you using?

http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?p=117467#p117467

Method 3

Okay. I'm using Method 2 I think.

Ok thx now I will look what to do

You can always open up the .fx file in a test editor and manually change the LOD values as well.

jedimoose32 wrote:Okay. I'm using Method 2 I think.

I think that is actually the proper way to do it anyhow, it doesn't require downloading a dll or using a modified PE executable.
I never felt comfortable instructing anyone to download a dll and I may remove method #1 from that post entirely. -Done

With method #2 (now #1) you can also eliminate the common.lvl error on launch by creating this folder structure:
Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC\COMMON\ENG\common.lvl
where you would copy common.lvl from:
Star Wars Battlefront II\GameData\DATA\_LVL_PC
to the ENG folder.