I think what ice. talking about is these values in the ship entity file

        beamWidth 30.000000
        beamGlowColor ffffffff
        beamCoreColor ffffffff
        beamTilingRate 3.000000

within the beam weapons effects.

Failing that, you can adjust the hue and brightness with gimp or no doubt photoshop by going to the "colors" tab.

Also check that you have saved your new file with the channels & mipmaps set up the same as the original Sins ones.

Thats strange. I just add Brightness and contrast to the beam Glow dds. and it works quite well.

There is no mesh. for the beams. Or at least 1 that there is access to.There are ones for wave, autocannon, missiles, plasma and alot of ability effects, though thats probably not what your looking for. You may be able to alter the chaos bolt to get the lightening effect, I don't know.

That is what I did only I made it green and haven't widend it. I curtainlly wouldn't say its brighter that the 1 pictured. But its deffinitly alot brighter than the original.

Its hard to know what the alpha channel does as it can't be edited. I might try and make a new 1 like a dds-da perhaps and also a cl and see what happens.

Alrighty, here's a follow-up question.

I am sure that Beams cannot be given glow intensity now.

But what about particles?

This is my very first time really using Particle Forge, and thus my first attempt at making a decent "glow". None of the shaders actually seem to work which was very depressing because there's multiple bloom shaders. They just make everything invisible. Is it even possible to use those on particles? If so, how?

With some tweaking I can probably get this Spectral Javalin to look fairly decent. Which allows me to move on to my next question;

How do you create lense streaks? Like the ones engines produce?

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Okay I think I figured out streaks. Took some work to get them to align horizontally, though... I'll upload a video since you really have to see this thing moving to appreciate it.

For some reason the game is not reading my ogg file. So the Javalins don't have their sounds right now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aln4mWTouv4 (JUST uploaded the video... so if you are checking right as I edited it won't be ready, give it a few minutes)

Awesome! You're getting pretty close to what I'm after. If I can get my beam to glow like that we'll be in business. So the alpha in the core texture is just pure white and the glow is pure black? I'll try this momentarily.

That youtube video is finished uploading and processed. Give it a gander if you are interested in the kind of effects I'm trying to produce.

Okay, I doubled the width of the beam texture, and made the alpha absolutely massive - about twice the size of the beam texture itself. I ended up with this;

Not nearly as glowy as yours is... but making progress. My alpha is considerably massive compared to the beam texture but the beam texture itself didn't shrink at all ingame from my changes. Very curious...

I think I need to play with the actual texture now.

Let's find out. I'm making a better beam texture, and I'll see what happens when I play around with the other one some more.

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Unreal Tournament 3's editor exports wav files as 0kb. Today just keeps throwing me pain.

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Doesn't seem to be making much of a difference. Might need to play with that texture a bit more and see what happens when I change the alpha a bit.