Flamethrower color

[SergeantPurge]

Hello everyone, sergeant purge here.

I'm fairly new to modding, but i already published one map (Endor riverbed) and am now working on a mappack. For this mappack i'm adding in new heroes for all sides and for one of them i would like to change up his weapon. He uses a flamethrower but i was wondering if i could change the color of the flames from orange/red to blue. But i don't know how to do this. I allready looked into the ODF's but couldn't find anything there that seemed of use (i could be wrong). Any help is appreciated

ps: this is the first post i made and i read the site rules, but if there's any rule i violated please point me at it so i can avoid it in the future, thanks for the help!
pss: if there's any ODF's i need to post here for some reason tell me in the comments, i didn't include them here to not clutter up the post.

[Marth8880]

Welcome to Gametoast!

You need to alter the Spawner and Transformer's Color values in the flamethrower ordnance's FX file. You can do so with a text editor or with Particle Editor.

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Spawner()
	{
		Spread()
		{
			PositionX(-1.0000,1.0000);
			PositionY(-1.0000,1.0000);
			PositionZ(-1.0000,1.0000);
		}
		Offset()
		{
			PositionX(-0.1000,0.1000);
			PositionY(-2.6000,-2.4000);
			PositionZ(-0.1000,0.1000);
		}
		PositionScale(0.0000,0.0000);
		VelocityScale(0.1000,0.1000);
		InheritVelocityFactor(0.0000,0.0000);
		Size(0, 0.6500, 0.6500);
		Red(0, 80.0000, 80.0000);    // modify these values
		Green(0, 80.0000, 80.0000);    // modify these values
		Blue(0, 80.0000, 80.0000);    // modify these values
		Alpha(0, 0.0000, 64.0000);    // modify these values
		StartRotation(0, 1.0000, 1.0000);
		RotationVelocity(0, -1.0000, -1.0000);
		FadeInTime(0.0000);
	}
	Transformer()
	{
		LifeTime(0.5000);
		Position()
		{
			LifeTime(0.7500)
			Accelerate(0.0000, 0.0000, 100.0000);
		}
		Size(0)
		{
			LifeTime(0.2000)
			Scale(1.0000);
		}
		Color(0)
		{
			LifeTime(0.1000)
			Move(0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,191.0000);    // modify these values
			Next()
			{
				LifeTime(0.3500)
				Move(0.0000,0.0000,0.0000,-255.0000);    // modify these values
			}
			// note that the above few lines in the Color{} tree might refer to Reach instead of Move, just do the same with those if it does
		}
	}

Particle Editor basics: http://www.gametoast.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=23495

[AnthonyBF2]

You can also color the fire textures using an editor like Gimp or Photoshop.

[Marth8880]

You can also color the fire textures using an editor like Gimp or Photoshop.

True but it's best practice (and cheapest) to stick with colorizing them via the particle system.

[SergeantPurge]

Ok i tried to "post a reply" but it didn't go through i think, at least i don't see it anywhere (if it did go through i apoligize for the "spam"). anyway, thanks for the help but i searched around in my sides folder for the flamethrower sfx ord files, by searching for all files that mention flamethrower, but i could only find these files:

imp_weap_hero_flamethrower.odf
com_weap_inf_flamethrower_ord.odf
com_weap_inf_flamethrower_exp.odf
com_weap_inf_flamethrower.odf
imp_weap_hero_flamethrower_exp.odf
imp_weap_hero_flamethrower_ord.odf
hud_imp_flamethrower.msh
hud_imp_flamethrower.msh.option
cis_weap_hero_flamethrower.odf
cis_weap_hero_flamethrower_exp.odf
cis_weap_hero_flamethrower_ord.odf

none of these are the file you mentioned. I did however find this line in the com_weap_inf_flamethrower_ord.odf
PlayEffectOnOwnerAimer = "com_sfx_weap_flamethrower_ord"

however if i searched for com_sfx_weap_flamethrower_ord, i couldn't find any results. Anyone knows what i'm doing wrong? thanks for the help!