Spring RTS Engine

Is there a way to use a .bmp as a weapon effect? and if so how do you apply it to a weapon?

No... well, yes, but it applies to all weapons and explosions, so no. And it's not animated or anything. Basically, there's no real control over the explosion graphics. Plasma shells will always be orange, EMG is hardcoded, lightning and lasers are the only things you can change the color of, but even still the explosion is always the same.

And, this leads me to suggest that all of the above should have some sort of color control, blue/red/purple plasma anyone?

Neuralize wrote:And, this leads me to suggest that all of the above should have some sort of color control, blue/red/purple plasma anyone?

I've been asking for it for ages.

it probably is hardcoded too and not very easy to change..

All they need to do is swap the hard coded tag to something loaded in form the FBI/TDF. Like they have already implemented with the lazers.

You can have an unlimited number of random high-res ground scars but only a single low-res explosion graphic for ALL explosions, fires, engine flares... Probably one of my top ten most-wanted things... I've been bitching about this for ages.

we just need someone to program it..

what language?

Spring is written in C++

hmm, that shouldn't be too rough to add

As most of this is already implemented in other parts of the game, this should just be a matter of copy+pasting code.

Well... does someone want to make it happen??
I myself don't know enuf about coding sadly, but would realy like to see it happen. Here are a few of the weapon effects I had in mind.

http://taspring.clan-sy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=3497