Waray

Greetings,

is there a way to simply add effects to weapons? I don't mean adding damage nuggets or hit FX etc. but glow effects. I know there should be a way (like the Anduril upgrade that puts a red glow to Aragorn's sword, or Gandalf's Moria staff light) but I can't seem to analyze the way to add it only to the weapon. Or is this effect stuck to the skins?

What I hope to do is to only produce the glow effect during a special power (for example, when using Blademaster the sword gets the blue glow effect which also is used for Frodo's Sting).

Hello, first of all thnx for the great tutorials, they really helped someone completely new to this stuff get a grasp of things.

However, while toying with making "new" powers I stumbled on a problem.
I'm currently making a power, which basically is Word of Power but with the FX of BalrogSummoning
(In a mod for BFME1 Sauron had this power, which I thought looked pretty cool).

I've made a copy of GandalfsWordOfPower in Weapon.ini, renamed it, altered the wave a bit (more damage, less range) and replaced the following lines:

PreAttackFX		   = FX_GandalfPreAttackBlastReal
FireFX				= FX_GandalfBlast

where I changed FX_GandalfBlast to FX_Novablast2, which is an edited version of FX_BalrogSummoningFinish.
This worked since I now got the sphere and blast FX while using the power.

However, I assumed the first line "FX_GandalfPreAttackBlastReal" was for the energy gathering which Gandalf/CAH uses (raise stick & slam while a rippled blue wave gathers) since in FX_list it's description is "This is Gandalf's Pre Attack Energy Gathering (version)". I changed it into FX_Novablast1, an edited version of FX_BalrogSummoningStart (I'm aiming to keep the animation where Gandalf raises his stick and slams it on the ground, but instead of the inverting waves, I want the yellow light bars coming up from the ground seen in the Balrog Summon) which apperantly doesn't work.

So now I'm guessing it's part of an animation, but I can't find it and I hope someone knows how to change it.
Thanks in advance.