[WMCoolmon]

I've been trying to get this working with the mediaVPs, but I'm having a bit of trouble. Mainly that the projectile doesn't seem to appear at all. I've tried moving the yellow_glow.tga file to Media_VPs/data/effects, but no show. (It's also in mv_effects.vp/data/textures/yellow_glow.tga)

I'm just using the TBM from the first post; am I missing something?

[taylor]

I'm just using the TBM from the first post; am I missing something?

Not sure, what you did is all I did to use it.  I just put the tbm in data/tables and copied yellow_glow.dds (I converted mine to have mipmaps) to data/effects/ and it showed up fine.

[Wanderer]

It might also be that the way i managed to build the effect is not a good one. If you check the .tbm you can see that the particle spews duration is set to be very short (1/80 of a second) so i was afraid that there might be problems with low FPS values. However i did see the effect even with FPS dropping to something about 30 so i was back then confident that it wouldn't be a problem. You could try:

i) changing the name of the effect into something else, i hope it is this one

ii) try to prolong the effect, if it is this one then i think the whole idea has to scrapped as then there would be problems with different FPS rates (some would see single blobs, some would see nothing at all and others would see multiple blobs) unless an override to draw only a single frame particle spews is available. IMHO too much effort to upgrade a single effect.

[Grug]

Looks good.
Might use a similar technique in TAP.

I like the idea of the glowing countermeasures. The old ones I never saw, so it would make sense to see some flares shooting off the ships etc when you hit the button or am chasing an AI in a dogfight. Would be cool if they moved faster and had trails.

Nice worksies.

[WMCoolmon]

Countermeasures can have trails.

Remember that weapons/countermeasures have been merged, so fields you can do with a weapon you can do with a countermeasure. That should include trails, esp. since the countermeasures already use the POF renderer like missiles.

[Nuke]

you need to make it where you can have any kind of rendering options, on any kind of weapon, regaurdless of type. that means laser code on secondaries, and the ability to use flak with effects other than pspew.

[Wanderer]

That would be great as pspews behaviour is limiting the editing badly.