HaloMods "Classic" Read-only Archive

how do you change the color of the plasma grenade, if you can, please help, im kinda sorta a noob, so be detailed. thanks

mastercheif2253 wrote:how do you change the color of the plasma grenade, if you can, please help, im kinda sorta a noob, so be detailed. thanks

skinning ftw.

or do you mean the effect around it?

both, like make the color of it green, and then when it explodes, its green as well

Make sure you have the latest [effe] plugin for Entity (see the Downloads section). There is a reflexive for each prt3/pmov in the effect that determines the color, and whether the effect does a transition from one color to another. Look up Turk645's tutorial on customizing effects, because he lists the chunk numbers that you need to edit. I think it's 5, 6 and 7 for the primary color, and 16, 17, 18 for the secondary color. And the values go from 0-255, in BGR order instead of RGB. You can open a copy of MSPaint (if you have Windows) and go into the color palette to select a color and view its RGB values. Darkshallfall released an app called Effect Studio that lets you see which component you are editing and enter the colors much more easily, but sometimes it doesn't change all the dependencies, so you have to do it manually.

Getting the color transitions to look good is subtle but important to the overall look. If you make the primary and secondary colors the same, you'll see that the effect looks crappy. Try to match the color trends of the original effect (if it goes from dark to light, light to dark, colored to colorless, etc.).

It's slow and tedious work. RTH would make it a snap, if only we could use it...