Adding shield colors

posted on February 6th, 2010, 9:22 pm

So i want my cardassians to have yellow shields...I've added the sprite entries into the fleetops.spr file...ive copied and changed all the relative tgas so that they have a yellow hue to them....but i can't find the sprite file that has these entries

shieldhit = "shield_fed_hitS"
shieldhitcritical = "shield_fed_hitcritS"
shielddown = "shield_fed_down"

that way i can specify my cardassian shields

shieldhit = "shield_card_hitS"
shieldhitcritical = "shield_card_hitcritS"
shielddown = "shield_card_down"

posted on February 6th, 2010, 9:24 pm

Shields use SODs.

posted on February 6th, 2010, 9:39 pm

yea....i just figured that out...now how do i get them to be transparent? i copied the green shields...and applied the yellow textures...but when i fire at the ships...it becomes black....not sure what to do from here...what changes do i have to make to the textures?

posted on February 6th, 2010, 10:46 pm

Tried, but didn't work

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posted on February 6th, 2010, 10:49 pm

What didn't work? And why are those screenshots of Dino-FO?

posted on February 6th, 2010, 11:59 pm

Did you replace the sods or simply change the color of the texture? I did the color change and i copied and pasted and renamed the sods and that works...but i wanted them to be yellow..so when i went into MS3D and changed the colors and exported them...the squares around the shield grids are no longer transparent...how do i fix this??

posted on February 7th, 2010, 12:50 am

The material has to be set to additive blending. or just make your own sphere with a texture and additive blending

posted on February 7th, 2010, 1:05 am

do shield meshes need animation?

posted on February 7th, 2010, 2:14 am

it def has the additive tag on the texture.....ill see about messing around with it and see what happens...