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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: blowfish on March 16, 2008, 02:38:36 pm

Title: About Laser Colors...
Post by: blowfish on March 16, 2008, 02:38:36 pm

I noticed that you can change the color of a laser using different values in the tables, regardless of the color of the actual bitmap.  For instance I used an Akheton bitmap (blue to begin with) and put in the colors 60, 200, 60 and got a pale green laser.  My question is: is this color changing good enough to be used or is it better to just change the color of the bitmap in Photoshop?

Title: Re: About Laser Colors...
Post by: Wanderer on March 16, 2008, 02:51:12 pm

Why wouldn't it be?

The RGB values set in the weapons table define the color used with the - usually - greyscale bitmap used for laserglow. So if you have extremely bright glow bitmap and then use high RGB values you can change the coloring almost altogether. However if the glow bitmap is rather dim the effect will be smaller and sometimes even difficult to spot.