Needler Contrail Color Change

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Needler Contrail Color Change

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Iv been having a few problems trying to alter the color of the contrail/muzzle flash on the needler...

you see, i changed the needles, 3P needles, and specular mask needles from purple to green...

but as you can probably guess, when i fire it, the contrail/muzzle flash remains purple...

does anyone happen to know how to change the color so that these two sync-up?
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k

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Did you change the shader or the bitmap.
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yivkX wrote:Did you change the shader or the bitmap.
no...iv never really messed with shaders mainly because i dont know how...

how would i go about doing that?
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Post by a mammoth »

Contrail color is in the contrail tag, muzzle flash color is in the effe tag, and you'll have to change the firing light to the color you want as well.
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a Mammoth wrote:Contrail color is in the contrail tag, muzzle flash color is in the effe tag, and you'll have to change the firing light to the color you want as well.
alright...i got all those pulled up in dothalo, but i dont know where to alter the hues/colors...im not trying to swap it with anything in the dependencies window...

i extracted the purple bitmap on the needler contrail, changed it in PS, internalized the bitmap, and re-injected the new color...but after i ftp'd it back to my box, it wasnt changed...

as for the muzzle flash, i dont know which one to change color! there's like 15 different effects of the needler i see no specific one that regulates the flash out of the gun!!

and you mentioned firing light? what exactly is that, where do i find it, and how do i change it?

sorry i have all these questions but im just about ready to release my new map and i cant seem to get these last few details out of the way...
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Entity can change contrail colors

1) got to the [cont] contrail tag
2) select contrail of liking (needle for ex.)
3) go to tools
4) in the tools menu and select meta editor
5) edit contrail to your liking
6) hit save at the top of the meta editor

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With dot halo, you probably don't have up to date plugins, thats why you didn't see options for it.

And by firing light I mean the light that probably attached to the firing effect.
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a Mammoth wrote:With dot halo, you probably don't have up to date plugins, thats why you didn't see options for it.

And by firing light I mean the light that probably attached to the firing effect.
i think thats it because iv been trying to get this jackel shield thing to work as well...

see...i started modding about 6 months ago. played with it for about 2 months, and then stopped...i did manage SUCESSFULLY to get a jackel shield working in one of my past maps...and now im picking it up again...but nothing seems to work!!!

does anyone wanna shoot me a few link to the latest plugins for my obviously outdated programs
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Post by IISKETCHII »

demonicsandwich wrote:Entity can change contrail colors

1) got to the [cont] contrail tag
2) select contrail of liking (needle for ex.)
3) go to tools
4) in the tools menu and select meta editor
5) edit contrail to your liking
6) hit save at the top of the meta editor

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when i click on the contrail bit for the needler in the weap tag, i get a warning message that says it needs to quit the program...

outdated plugins mabey?

if so, when do i go about downloading the latest up-to-date ones??
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