Do you perhaps want “set” randomness? I haven’t looked at FL or .ales in a LONG time now so I don’t remember how the color part of the ale looks but I know I made missile trails that would constantly change colors. Not totally random though, just I added more lines of varied colors and had really small time increments of like 0.00000500 and so on.

I think it would look like this sort of

1.00000000, 1.00000000, 0.50000000, 0.00005000
0.80000000, 0.50000000, 1.00000000, 0.00010000

and so on. r,g,b,time
r,g,b,time
etc.

I had alot of lines. But sorry, its not really “random”. You all probably know this anyways.

later

Here’s something that I’m wokin on (its actually from Alfa’s ionic current thread on tlr)

Well I wasn’t aware of that to be honest.

What exactly do you want out of the engine ales? Are you looking to do a whole color co-ordinated thing (green for rheinland, blue for liberty, etc). Maybe if you tell what exactly you wanna do, someone can help.

Well explosions use an animated left to right top to bottom 16 frame texture. I made a hi-res animated one just for the nuke. took a while, but that could also be what they used for the billboard. I think animated textures like that are only for effects though, but its quick to check

I sent you the e-mail. Hope it helps.

What do you mean by “doesn’t support the program”? ???

80 bucks for a mouse? well a logic g7 costs bout 500 down here so…
(rambling thoughts are a way of as yet misunderstood super-intelligent communication :D)

OK, I checked out the code I was talking about and it seems I strayed quite abit from the actual tlr_power_out settings.
I don’t know how to add an attachment cause i have compiled the effect and I can just post it here (its like 2kb). And now I don’t have the code with me :-.

Thank you for the nice comments guys, its really appreciated.

@ BBalazs, that engine effect is really sweet on the eyes, sometimes simpler is better ;D

Here’s a flash for a nuke from 40k away (it’s faster and a bit more realistic now but I haven’t touched fl for about two weeks or so, so no new video) and the explosion itself (without flash) at closer range. I did this some time ago and progress was posted on digitalbrilliance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVvOmY0NyP4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8RGgeX-TUg

Hi, if I may add to this post, this is good that someone wants to create a new jump tunnel effect. A while back I created an effect using the tlr_power_out.ale file that very closely resembles your screenshots, seriously. I wanted to do the whole replace the jump tunnel effect and add this one to the game instead, but I’m too busy studying and working on other projects.

I don’t have the files (at work now) but i did put the code aside for later so i suppose I could post it here for you when I get a chance (asap). I can also quickly add the effect to a weapon and make a little video if you like.

But if you want to decode the ale I mentioned then you will see that the appearence sections and emitters are duplicated with different names (the tradelane power out has the animated electric rings both above and below the y plane) for each ring and under the node_transform for each emitter you will see that there is an entry with a value of ,250, and the other emitter will have ,-250, (sorry I can’t be more specific but it was a while back). You can keep the duplicate sections and just change the 250 and -250 to 0 and then check the effect out ingame and you will see where I am going with this.

I will post the code soon tho.

OK, sorry to but in here but just want to help, the weaon_equip.ini references everything, just read the names of the FX_Type = FxBasicAppearance and FX_Type = FxRectAppearance in the anl. Some effects also use a FX_Type = FLBeamAppearance. They will have _flash, _proj, _impact and other extras attached to the names. These are pretty simple to figure what part of the weapons effects they are used for and these are all used by the weapon in the ini.

As FF said, node_color under Node_Name = ku_capgun_01_proj.app (_proj for projectile ;)) is what you want to change.

The appearence sections are what you want to change for things like opacity (or varying levels thereof), color (once again varying levels if you want) and size. (also if you want to be flashy and create animated textures you would specify how the animation plays under the appearence section but leave that for now).

So if you want it to be say green then you would change it to this:

SubEntry = 0.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000

So now it will be green from start to finish, but you could have a rainbow effect too:

SubEntry = 0.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 0.2000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 0.4000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 0.6000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 0.8000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000
SubEntry = 1.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 0.0000000000000000, 1.0000000000000000

Just my 5cents, hope it helps a bit more.

copy that captain! ;D

so you got a minute… ;D

Dude, thats what i said. I changed those textures, over and over. Wierd, seems like no-ones ever tried to change em.

Oh well, thanks for the speedy reply anyways

hey there, sorry to but in but is there any chance you came across a way to change the colors of those gauges (energy hull shield)? so far i have tried changing the textures in the 3db files, changing the name of the file the exe looks for and putting the correct files in place, and also found no entry in the hud.ini file. I know the RGB values (i think) but don’t really know how to look for them, i did try search for both hex and decimal values in exe, maybe i searched wrong. here is RGB + dec values if this would help:

shieldgauge - 72 72 224 - 0.282353 0.282353 0.878431
hullgauge - 161 50 50 - 0.631372 0.196078 0.196078
energygauge - 216 208 103 - 0.847059 0.815686 0.403921

thx in advance

Sweet… Really appreciate it.

is it possible to upload that file to starport or tlr? i never get an available download server for my country from filefront. pls, just for me ::)