Hello, I am trying to add custom laser textures for my side mod, but they won't show up ingame. I put them in the data_***\common\effects folder (they replace the stock textures). How do I get them to show up?

I'm no expert in this part of modding but I'm fairly sure you have to munge a new custom ingame.lvl and make your map read the new one instead of the original Battlefront II one.

no. easiest to put the effect files in your side's folder.

I don't think that's how it works. As shown in the tutorial I linked in my previous post, you have to reference only the newly edited textures in the ingame.req file and munge it. The tutorial also states this:

Add ReadDataFile("dc:ingame.lvl") before the line ReadDataFile("ingame.lvl")

This command loads the newly munged ingame.lvl located in the addon/ABC/data/LVL_PC folder overriding the original ingame.lvl, located in the GameData/data/lvl_pc folder, making his new edited laser textures appear instead of the original Pandemic ones. I may be wrong, but I'm fairly sure this is how it works. It's a matter of overriding the old laser textures. Nothing to do with sides.

Well, since commanderawesome is doing a side mod, either way is works fine, really.

MileHighGuy wrote:no. easiest to put the effect files in your side's folder.

Used this method. It works! Thanks!