A way to connect visual effects with the water color.

[Gota]

If i want a plasma projectile to create a splash when it hits water I need to be able to make the splash have the color of the water to look nice on any map the game is played.
Any way to do that?aside from lua.

[Argh]

I don't think the dirt projectile reads water, and that's the only CEG that interacts with ground at all.

P.O.P.S. could be used for this, really trivially though.

[Auswaschbar]

make the splash have the color of the water

Which one?

[Gota]

make the splash have the color of the water

Which one?

What do you mean?the splash from the projectile hitting the water.
Or do you mean in technical terms?

[rattle]

diffusecolor would be logical, specularcolor could be useful too

[SpikedHelmet]

What he means (I think) is he wants the water explosion to be of similar colour to the water it explodes in so that it will create an appropriate-coloured splash on different maps that have different water shades/colours.

Would actually be more useful for ground explosions to kick up a dustball of the same "dirt" colour as the map (including whitish explosions for explosions on snow)

[Gota]

Yep

[Forboding Angel]

I never thought of that tbh, but yeah, he's right.

[jK]

Seems you guys don't know, but the CEGdefs loading is totally luaficated.
So you can already adjust the CEGs to the maps. It's just that trepan never translated the CEGs in CA and myself didn't found the time to do it either.

[CarRepairer]

Seems you guys don't know, but the CEGdefs loading is totally luaficated.
So you can already adjust the CEGs to the maps. It's just that trepan never translated the CEGs in CA and myself didn't found the time to do it either.

Let me know when there's a conversion script.

[Argh]

Ah, ok, then we can just intercept them at runtime and alter the color values? That is useful to know.

[smoth]

I've no idea how to do a lua defined ceg. Any possibility you would toss up a small example?

[jK]

Seems you guys don't know, but the CEGdefs loading is totally luaficated.
So you can already adjust the CEGs to the maps. It's just that trepan never translated the CEGs in CA and myself didn't found the time to do it either.

Let me know when there's a conversion script.

Updated trepan's FBI2Lua tool/widget:
http://trac.caspring.org/browser/trunk/tools/FBI2Lua.

Also CA now switched to full lua configfiles for CEGs.

[smoth]

Thanks!