Change Color of Weapon Effect

Okay, I’ve found the releavant part of the file - thanks for the guidance!

Now I’m looking at the daunting task of knowing which of those decimal values to edit, IE:

SubEntry = 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.5019608139991760, 0.2509804069995880
SubEntry = 0.5517241358757019, 0.9529412388801575, 0.7372549176216126, 0.0784313753247261

Since the FLDev program doesn’t seem to give RGP values from decimal values it’s tough to know what is what. Are these gradients? Is one SubEntry all one color? What’s the method to the madness?

EDIT: I’ve tried changing the values to see what happens but unfortunately I can’t figure out how to properly re-encode the files ><. When I use ALE editor it just gives me my_effect.tale. My kingdom for a Readme.

@FriendlyFire:

.tale is just like .ale. Replace the old ALE file with the new one and it’ll do the trick.

FLDev actually does swap through between RGB and Decimal in the Math Tools. As long as the syntax is correct, it should work. Remember however that the first value in the SubEntry is timing and should NOT be put in FLDev.

Ah, of course :P. I made the changes, fixed a few FUBARs I made, and BAM It works! Thanks so much to all of you! I would never have figured that out without your assistance!

Unfortunately I’ve still got one last problem. The effect that I originally was copying from, is now mimicing the same colors (even though I put this in a totally seperate file. Here’s my references

WEAPONS_ALE.INI

[VisEffect]
nickname = ku_capgun_01_proj
alchemy = fx\weapons\ku_capgun_01.ale
effect_crc = 147112183
textures = fx\standardeffects.txm
textures = fx\photon.txm
textures = fx\sarma.txm

[VisEffect]
nickname = dw_pulsephasers_fx
alchemy = fx\weapons\dw_pulsephasers_fx.ale
effect_crc = 147112183
textures = fx\standardeffects.txm
textures = fx\photon.txm
textures = fx\sarma.txm

EFFECTS.INI

[Effect]
nickname = ku_capgun_01_proj
effect_type = EFT_WEAPON_PROJ
vis_effect = ku_capgun_01_proj
vis_generic = ku_capgun_01_proj

[Effect]
nickname = dw_pulsephasers_fx
effect_type = EFT_WEAPON_PROJ
vis_effect = dw_pulsephasers_fx
vis_generic = dw_pulsephasers_fx

I have a feeling it is the effect_crc number being the same since the two are in different fx files - but how do I generate a new one? Google yields no help yet again.

But which number do I use? All the ones I tried made the effect not display (invisible firing)

I’m a bit confused. So do I just use any variable off DB’s CRC? Or do I have to go through that lines with zero’s procedure Mini_Me mentioned? All this talk of hexes makes me miss a GUI