Something a little… Different (weapon fx)

Well with my numbers man off getting hammered to celebrate end of exams, I figured I’d play around a bit to see what’s the happy hap in effects. After testing a few ideas I was given for Electronic Warfare stuff, I came upon a new idea that has no relevance to the mod, but something I’d like to try nevertheless.

Sometimes, as much as I try to hold it in, that side of me escape, and here we are with me asking those with more know-how in how I could pull off something like this.

Take your time to facepalm before moving on.

Now, to be a little more specific, I would like to create an effect like the rune Nanoha has in front of her hand, spinning. I would also like it to ‘grow’ to that size, and either shrink back in or fade away.

I’ve had a bit of a play around, and replaced small-flare in sarma.txm with a rune, just to have a bit of a play around. (I realise how often this texture is called on ) and it creates a cool effect on the Justice flash at default settings.

Cool, but not what I want. I also tried it with a bigger flash, the lib flak one, which got me a lot closer to what I wanted, but unfortunately it was way too fast (well, it is a flash )

Basically, I’m not really sure what to do in order to achieve the above. I had a poke around with the ale decoder, but it’s all really just gibberish to me at the moment, and my searches for a tutorial have come up empty (besides a lot of returns for people who can’t find tutorials )

Anyway, I was kinda hoping someone here would look past my inspiration to help me make this effect. xD

Thanks for your time!

Okay, well I was playing around in the justice’s (li_laser_01) ale, and I presume I need to edit the flash node’s lifespan?

Well, I tried that, raising it up to 300 (from 2 or 3), but it didn’t seem to change anything at all.

I’m using the XML project.