Alright, for the map that I'm currently working on, I want one of the troop's lasers to be an aqua color. I opened up imp_weap_inf_pistol_ord and made it look like this:
I also made com_sfx_laser_aqua so it's well... aqua, and saved it as a .tga in BF2_Modtools\Data_***\Common\effects, and then added the dc: to the ReadDataFile for the Empire in my Lua. However, when I munged the side and tested it out in game, the laser was untextured, and there was no light thrown by it at all... I just need to know what I am doing wrong with this, and if there is like, something special to do with ordnance files to edit them.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Never save new effect files in Common/Effects. Put it in the new custom side's effect folder. If there isn't one, make it.

Well, since this is just a test map, I just copied the whole imp side. Would I just save the effect in Sides\imp\effects then?

Yes.

K, thanks, it worked .