HotRockets! Particle FX Replacement

HotRockets Forum Thread

If you are tired of seeing the same old effects, HotRockets is for you!

HotRockets gives each stock engine, and now many mod pack engines new particle effects for exhaust and smoketrails, without editing any other engine properties. Thanks to the included SmokeScreen plugin, the effect configs can have many properties not available to effects in the stock system.

Notice on mod support:

I cannot provide support for every engine mod as they update. However, the current configs for mod engines including updates from KSP forum members can be downloaded by clicking "all files" here on Curseforge.

Supported Engine mods: KW Rocketry, B9 Aerospace, Novapunch, AIES, SXT, KSPX, RLA Stockalike and Ions, Kerbx, Nasa pack, and Procedural Parts SRB

HotRockets Art Assets: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Powered by SmokeScreen + ModuleManager(by Sarbian) License: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause

ABOUT THIS LISTING

This page describes HotRockets! Particle FX Replacement by Nazari1382. The description and screenshots are the author's own, imported from their listing on CurseForge on 25 October 2026: https://www.curseforge.com/kerbal/ksp-mods/hotrockets-particle-fx-replacement

Mythiq.net hosts no files for it. The download button goes straight to the release file on edge.forgecdn.net, so you are downloading from the author's own host, not from a copy of ours.

The download count, rating and comments on this page start at zero and count Mythiq.net only. The source's own figures are not copied here — they measure a different site, and a number that cannot be checked against our own ledger is not worth printing.

GAME VERSION

Built against KSP 1.0.4. Parts and plugins compiled for one major version routinely misbehave on another — a plugin for 1.8 can fail silently on 1.12.

DEPENDENCIES

Many part packs and plugins depend on ModuleManager, and some on each other. KSP's loading log (KSP.log in the game folder) names the missing dependency when a part does not appear; the author's page lists the usual set.

1. Download the archive with the button on this page and unzip it.

2. Move the mod's folder — the one containing the .version file or the part folders — into:

Kerbal Space Program\GameData

The path in game must read GameData\\…, not GameData\\\…

3. Start the game. Parts appear in their categories in the VAB; plugins show their own toolbars or settings screens.

4. If the mod ships a CraftNote or extras folder, leave it — some packs store example ships and textures there.

UPDATING

Delete the old folder in GameData first. Two versions of one plugin loaded together is the usual cause of duplicate parts and toolbar errors.