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Texture to Shields

August 5, 2011 3:46:53 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums

All of the frigate and capital ship shields are eather lightly yelloww or black. Is there a way to add a colored texture to shields to change that?

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Reply #1 August 5, 2011 3:53:38 PM
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The only way to change how a shield looks is to change its mesh.

No textures.

However, you can change the color that the shield has by changing these modifiers in the PlayerRACE's .entity:

shieldData
    shieldAbsorbGrowthPerDamage 0.001000
    shieldAbsorbDecayRate 0.012500
    shieldAbsorbBaseMin 0.150000
    shieldColor ffffc705 <----- this one changes the color for all ship's shields for that race.

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Reply #2 August 6, 2011 6:18:44 AM
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cool and how do we know what color code is for what color?

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Reply #3 August 6, 2011 7:12:52 AM
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Hexadecimal Color Codes

http://html-color-codes.info/ is 1 of many sites

its been a while but I think you need to keep the first 2 "ff" then a new number

FF0040 is a shade of red so try ffFF0040 or ffff0040

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Reply #4 August 6, 2011 11:26:03 PM
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It would be cool for Advent to create shields shaped like giant hands, faces or animals--real "anima".

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Reply #5 August 7, 2011 5:09:58 AM
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it didn't seem to make a difference with the first two ff or not, the shields stay black

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Reply #6 August 7, 2011 12:01:43 PM
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The color will only really show up when it get hit with stuff.

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Reply #7 August 10, 2011 6:34:02 AM
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I have put my ships in a pirate base full of pirate ships, capitalships and starbases and the have been blasted so hard that the shields were the only things visible and still no color.

But is it possible to change that reflection texture we see when the shields are hit?

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Reply #8 August 10, 2011 10:55:53 AM
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It seems to be affected by your skybox choice too. On dark skyboxes, it's hard to see the shields light up.

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