So I've just been looking through Amplitude's mod manual and examples - thanks so much for these, I'm a bit illiterate when it comes to this side of tech. Throw the textures at me in PS and I can handle that, albeit with some guesswork on how they 'fold'. XML files? Not so much.

That said, I see no indication of whether we can access and modify assets other than those available via the in game export, and if so, whether the particle effects for weapon types would be accessible at all? And then, what applications would be requisite to pull that off. 

My aim is to recolour the non-strategic weapons so they aren't all white, as it looks weird and is a significant downgrade to battle visuals. I'd intend to make all the beams red, the lasers cyan, and the projectile slugs something of a conventional kinetic/bullet colour.

Like so:

Bump for interest, although I'd like to know more about moddong/recolouring the engine FX as well. I suppose they're in similar place...

Hi,

I just wanted to know if anyone got how to change weapon fx

Hey folks!

It's currently impossible to 'create' new colors or visuals for the weapon FX, but it's possible to re-bind the ones that are used for each weapon.

Look into the SalvoDefinitions.xml file in the game's Public folder to see how each type of weapon is linked to a prefab (aka visual).
I think you can override these definitions with a mod, which links them to the prefab of your choice.

You could technically have laser weapons that shoot missiles for some reason, but it would probably cause issues... I think?

How could it be impossible? That seems like a rather difficult engine to work with for all parties involved.

MonAmiral wrote:

Hey folks!

It's currently impossible to 'create' new colors or visuals for the weapon FX, but it's possible to re-bind the ones that are used for each weapon.

Look into the SalvoDefinitions.xml file in the game's Public folder to see how each type of weapon is linked to a prefab (aka visual).
I think you can override these definitions with a mod, which links them to the prefab of your choice.

You could technically have laser weapons that shoot missiles for some reason, but it would probably cause issues... I think?

Not sure if it's appopriate to write here, because this thread about weapon FX. However, I would really love to be able to recolor engine FX, or at least swap existing ones. I worked on Vodyani ship reskin and I felt this functionality really missing, can't create skin+engine combination that satisfies my personal taste without possibility to change FX of the latter.