What, is your favorite color?

[inkblaster]

Ok, I am starting to realize that the devs are some of the most disorganized coders around.
They leave all sorts of test junk in the PIGG files, taking up potentially
Terabytes of wasted space on the cumulative HDDs of our systems.

And they don't properly categorize their textures, sounds, etc.

I'm starting to think all power colors ARE in fact in the texture colors, we just have to find them.

For example, some of the primary textures for energy blast are located under the force field powers. I also saw some psychic power colors under cold control of all things.

Anyways, I've found most of the energy blast powers save the power streak that goes from the player to the mob. The little floaty globules are easy to find, but I've now found the cone, and the bolt under the FF powers. Here's a pic.

Some night when I have more time I'll dig further for the actual power streak, may be a white whale, but it's worth a shot.

Edit, found the ring, will be updating requested colors first, hit refresh to see if the image is newer.

Edit, changing listings, pics are links to powers.
Purple
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_purple.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_purple.zip)
Yellow
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_yellow.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_yellow.zip)
Green
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_green.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_green.zip)
White
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_white.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_white.zip)
Orange
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_orange.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_orange.zip)
Red
http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_red.jpg (http://www.cohunderground.org/ink/energy_red.zip)

[IamLink]

Nice job!

[Blue Bolt]

Yay!

[Kinetix]

Yes! You win!

[Logan_D]

Whoa! Cool!

I've heard that the Devs eventually want to give people access to customizable colors for their effects. Then again, I've _also_ heard from other sources that tehy _don't_ want to do that because it would add to confusion in battle as to what effects are actually happening. If someone changed the green glow from a healing effect to a purple glow, for exempl, would it throw people off their stride?

[Kinetix]

I don't know, You're still getting healed. It's not like I sit in battle and wait for effects and shout "OOO! HEALING AURA!"

I think it's wanted enough by the majority that it will happen eventually.

[Meltman]

I think it's more a problem of figuring out how to implement it than deciding whether or not they should.

[Randomus]

Oooh.

[Meltman]

Oh, and Purple.

[iggy880]

From the way Ink makes it sound, it may be taking them this long just to find all of the piggs that effect the powers so that they can give the ability to change them. Anyways, that looks great ink, think you could post a link to the mod or post it once you get it all found and done.

[inkblaster]

Well, last night I was just hacking through to see what I could find, and what it affected, this week I'll try to polish up what I've found and make some semi-color changing mods.

There still is some blue to the effect, but at least main cone and bolt are found. Also have to clean up stuff I tried that didn't change the energy blasts(probably changed the mechman blasts). Maybe by the weekend I'll have the mod ready.

[Meltman]

From the way Ink makes it sound, it may be taking them this long just to find all of the piggs that effect the powers so that they can give the ability to change them. Anyways, that looks great ink, think you could post a link to the mod or post it once you get it all found and done.

Yeah, it is a little...muddled...in there.

[Charon]

Well in comics not every guy's energy blast is blue, so who cares about player confusion? An orange healing aura works just as well as a green one.

[Randomus]

Just don't use a yellow heal on Green Lantern.

[Charon]

True dat.

[inkblaster]

Just don't use a yellow heal on Green Lantern.

Actually wouldn't the yellow heal be all that could affect him? He would be impervious the other colored heals, thus probably dying...how ironic.

[sheld0n]

Ink, just one question to be sure: did you check if the forcefield color didnt change as well?
I mean, maybe theyre actually saving space by reusing textures...

Anyway, i dont really see whats the problem with giving us the possibility to change power colors. Especially now, that we have the lvl 30 auras, which are essentially the same thing. It shouldnt be much harder than turning all the textures black and white, and adding colors through variables.

[Krypto]

Eh, it's the way they set up all their texture files. In order to have customizable powers, they would probably have to redo everything.

They know that they'll never get customizable colors, or vehicles, or half of the things they've promised. Customizable weapons are a possibility.

If they do get customizable powers, they would likely have to do a copy/paste of the FX, but with different colors. If that's the case, the FX pigg file would end up being about 5 times as big as it is now.

[inkblaster]

Shel, I'm pretty sure it's 1 texture 1 power, thus the red and the blue, for Mek Men and Heroes. They also have one for force bolt in there so that's not shared, oh, also, fyi, release of issue 5 has curbed my modding binge, stay tuned for more modding 2 months before I6!

[Cryogentic]

Oh, and Purple. *hugs*



Looks neat Inkblaster

[Yin]

Devs always try to give some half-assed excuse for not doing anything. I wish they'd just shut the hell up sometimes and do the damn thing. Goodness gracious. This is a superhero game for Christsakes. They should know powers come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Ugh. Somedays I want to grab a pistol or a pair of uzis. Give them a full example on how Gunkata is used.

[inkblaster]

Thank you for that insightful rant in the mod section Thresh :P

So......, yeah, colors...., I might work on that this weekend, long weekend, I dunno. Purple is a favorite though eh?

purple....

[Charon]

and you already have half-yellow, so, since I've been requesting yellow for a while... :D

[Yin]

Thank you for that insightful rant in the mod section Thresh :P

So......, yeah, colors...., I might work on that this weekend, long weekend, I dunno. Purple is a favorite though eh?

purple....

I was so caught up in it I forgot to comment on your mod. :P My bad. It's nice! I really do like the yellow-orange colors there. Adds a nice effect. Could be useful if I wanted to have a character who absorbed ambient sunrays and redirected them in the forum of blasts instead of actual fire. Coolbeans. :)

[inkblaster]

Alllrighty then, posting the yellow mod, as mentioned there is still a tint of blue to the beam between the player and the target, but the cone, balls, bolts, etc, are all yellow.
This is from my rough draft, I may tweak these textures to be a little smoother.

Fellow modders feel free to seek out these textures and mod your own.

Without further ado
Energy Blast Yellow (http://home.comcast.net/~fuzzyweis/energy_yellow.zip)
Note this will replace the color of energy blasts for Paragon Protectors, etc, as well.

[Meltman]

And yes, purple would rule.

[inkblaster]

Ok, added purple, going to clean up Yellow, editing first post to have the listing.
And again, this doesn't change the light blue streak going from the player to the mob, just the cone, and particles. And power push just looks frickin' awesome in purple.

It will also change the color of mobs and pets using power blast.

[Istasi]

Awesomeness, Inkman! :thumbup:

[inkblaster]

Thanks Istasi, added white and green, and if someone wants another color let me know, think I'm gonna stick with white.

[Charon]

could you do orange?

[Kingdom Come]

Is there any possible way to mod the color of sonics to a blue or a red. :D

[inkblaster]

could you do orange?

I shall respond in ryhme.

For blasters who want a tint of orange,
I modded the textures like...something....pourridge...

And Supes, I ain't no sonics blaster Bit...
Um, I'll check into it....

[Kingdom Come]

Lol, clever, thx a'bunch :sarcasm:

[inkblaster]

Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna work on Sonics, it's easy to test energy for me, but if I try to do sonics I'll have to loud up a Sonics blaster to test, and then someone will want fire and I'd have to do that, and then someone would want electric, ice, yada yada.

So yeah, sorry but I'm gonna pass on other sets than energy.

[Meltman]

So you couldn't change that ring either?

[inkblaster]

Which ring? The energy ring or the sonic ring? There are a few rings in the textures that might be used for energy, but I'm too lazy to test each one right now. And sonics, same thing, too lazy.

BUT! if someone else finds it, let me know, I'll see about coloring it and adding it to these mods or what not.

[Kinetix]

Off-white Magenta plz

[Meltman]

Which ring? The energy ring or the sonic ring? There are a few rings in the textures that might be used for energy, but I'm too lazy to test each one right now. And sonics, same thing, too lazy.

BUT! if someone else finds it, let me know, I'll see about coloring it and adding it to these mods or what not.

The ring that's in all of the screenshots of the different colors.

[inkblaster]

Ah, yeah, I'm fairly certain it's in there somewhere. There's also textures that look totally white in the preview, but with their alpha channel aren't, like I said, hit a lazy spell with this stuff.

And Kin, what'd be easy is if you could give me Red green blue numbers, like 200 200 255 or something type of thing...

[The Icy One]

My character Beyondman is suppose to be using Dark Energy.. but he's not the Defender type, so I made him a Eng/Eng Blaster. Any way to darken the blasts at all to maybe dark grey? Or black.. if possible.

[Kinetix]

My character Beyondman is suppose to be using Dark Energy.. but he's not the Defender type, so I made him a Eng/Eng Blaster. Any way to darken the blasts at all to maybe dark grey? Or black.. if possible.

I made up a color.

Ink: Look at your PMs

[inkblaster]

The ring that's in all of the screenshots of the different colors.

Yup, they're all in there somewhere, you'll never even guess where that ring was hidden.

Man they're disorganized!

New Purple up, now there truly is just 1 texture I've yet to find...

[The Icy One]

I made up a color.What does that have to do with me needing black/grey energy blasts? >>

[Meltman]

Yup, they're all in there somewhere, you'll never even guess where that ring was hidden.

Man they're disorganized!

New Purple up, now there truly is just 1 texture I've yet to find...

In the world folder? The hell?!?

[inkblaster]

Yeah man, worst coders ever.

[Meltman]

They must drive the 2d art department crazy.

[inkblaster]

What does that have to do with me needing black/grey energy blasts? >>


Nothing, but black doesn't come out too well. In fact black really doesn't show up at all, see image below, all you really see is some light circular waves coming out, and the black particles.
http://home.comcast.net/~fuzzyweis/energy_black.jpg

And no, I didn't mess with the alphas! :P

[Plasma Wisp]

Inky, have I told you lately that I love you?

[inkblaster]

Inky, have I told you lately that I love you?

I'd have to take that as you like a zee colors?

Zee colors iz gooood?

[Plasma Wisp]

Buzzkill. Snappy green coloration.

[inkblaster]

Added red, sort of a Kool-Aid red.

Also the inherent blue flavor that isn't really a 'texture' seems to contrast with the red the most.

I guess if you've got like a red/blue patriot theme going that works.

[The Icy One]

Ever find a way to make Energy Blasts more.. colorless/black? >>

[inkblaster]

Coloring black will make the ring and almost all but that 'stream' from the player to the mob pretty much invis. I say almost because there's the little floaty globbeys that if I remember right, stay black.

You want that?

[inkblaster]

Wow, over a year and still no progress from NC on this, but the custom weapons keep coming.

I suppose non weaponers are a dying breed :(

[Stec]

Wow, over a year and still no progress from NC on this, but the custom weapons keep coming.

I suppose non weaponers are a dying breed :(

Nah, I actually have a hard time creating weapon characters no matter how hard I want weapon customization. I'm still with ya man. :cool:

[DMenacer]

Can anyone take the standard belt selection with the cloth belt option and edit the texture so it will look like the lightning around Flashes mid section where we would wear a belt? I think at this would be a good add on for the Flash Mod if anyone can do this?