c87 - If your good...sorry the issue couldn't get solved completely. I can't figure out what it could be.
If you guys see large brightly colored or stark black effects then something is out of whack obviously. Those effect files do exist with those colors, but they are for identifying when a particular effect occurs. I left them as is because they aren't used by LPE. Reintroduce other classfiles and those strangely colored effects will be called, i.e. made visible. If you're interested in making effects, but don't know what does what - just crank up the color or size in an effect file and start blowing stuff up. I suppose you could ask too, but there's many effect files to remember(I didn't write anything down unfortunately). A good trick is to set a battleship on land surrounded by objects, vehicles, and other things and let the game battle as you monitor what effects are appearing. Use this process to narrow things down. You can record individual effects from here too for quick playback as you refine any effect animations. Fast forwarding a track to the effect you're looking for wastes huge amounts of time!