Colors of Lightning

Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:03 pm by Master Zaraz

Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the colors of lightning. Thanks.

Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:00 am by Argh

In a word... yes... kind've. The lightning animation is stored in a TXM file in the FX folder (I believe it's called "lightning.txm", but I may be wrong- haven't messed with that one yet). It's a TGA file, and you can change the RGB values of the TGA to suit.

But can you customize the colors of lightning everywhere? No, I don't think you can. You can call out a RGB value/values for laser beams, for the Tractor Beam... I don't think you can do it for other things. Y'know, this might be worth taking the time to research, now that I know how to make ALEs do some new tricks. I'll get back to y'all about this...

Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:42 pm by FriendlyFire

I don't ever know if you mean lightning as we see in real life, or as we see in nebulae, the background flashes...

Please explain.

Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:23 pm by Master Zaraz

Argh:

Thanks man, I really appriecate that.

FF:

I mean the flashes you see in the nebula. Like in Sigma-13 on the way to the jumphole to Sigma-17(?)

Tue Sep 06, 2005 4:30 pm by FriendlyFire

Then, look for this in your nebula INI File :
[BackgroundLightning
duration = 0.750000
gap = 10.000000
color = 55, 50, 60

Color is a RGB value of the color. Hope this helps

Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:58 pm by Master Zaraz

The problem is I only want it to change for one system. Thanks though!

Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:45 am by Accushot

In that case, create a copy of the nebula in this file, name it something else and use that one in the system file.

Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:18 pm by Master Zaraz

Oh, right. Thanks.

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