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I was just wondering if any advanced modders out there knew how to change the color of the light that shines out of the CPs. Because the friendly CPs always shine blue and the enemys always shine red I thought it would be cool if if you could mod it to shine a different color.

http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... imitations
EDIT: I belive that the answer was there

Or here: http://www.gametoast.com/forums/viewtop ... 27&t=17454

Always search first before posting.

•We seemly can't change the original CP colors (red and blue).

That makes it sound like they may still be working on it or they aren't sure they have tried everything.

Please continue reading through both topics.

So far no one has been able to figure out how to change the red and blue holo colors for friend and enemy. You can change the color of the holo using the Color and custom setting in the holo odf but the CP won't change when taken over.

Thats to bad.

you could probably HEX edit it, but that would change it only for you, and on every map. Also there is the problem of figuring out what file it is stored in, and finding it in that file.

myers73 wrote:you could probably HEX edit it, but that would change it only for you, and on every map. Also there is the problem of figuring out what file it is stored in, and finding it in that file.

Thats scary just to think about.

not really if you know what you are doing....but the hours it would take would be a waste of valuable time you could be spending with friends, but then again so is all time spent on videogames

myers73 wrote:

not really if you know what you are doing

That rules me out!

DarthHamster wrote:

myers73 wrote:you could probably HEX edit it, but that would change it only for you, and on every map. Also there is the problem of figuring out what file it is stored in, and finding it in that file.

Thats scary just to think about.

Why is hex-editing viewed as an arcane magic? It's often straightforward enough if one reads and understands the guides we've got here, and has the common sense to make deductions about the basic structure of a MSH file. In any case, it seems more and more evident that the cp-changing-color thing is hardcoded and locked up within the game's exe somewhere, and can't be changed without changing the game code.

Fiodis wrote: Why is hex-editing viewed as an arcane magic? It's often straightforward enough if one reads and understands the guides we've got here, and has the common sense to make deductions about the basic structure of a MSH file. In any case, it seems more and more evident that the cp-changing-color thing is hardcoded and locked up within the game's exe somewhere, and can't be changed without changing the game code.

1, cus nobody gives it the time of day, and just asks other people to do it. Also editing .lvl files is way different from msh files, but once you know what to do it is pretty easy. Also if I had to guess i think that it is kept in the ingame.lvl, but thats just a guess.

along the lines of this topic(hijacking here): Is is posible to just change teh msh of a CP, and attack different effects to the object?

Now that I think about it I'm sure Mav and Teancum would have changed the color of the CPs in the Classic Conquest mode in the Conversion pack if there was a way to do it. They would have made them the color they are in Battlefront 1. If they can't get it to change color no one can.

myers73 wrote:along the lines of this topic(hijacking here): Is is posible to just change teh msh of a CP, and attack different effects to the object?

Go to the link nine posts above yours.

DarthHamster wrote:Now that I think about it I'm sure Mav and Teancum would have changed the color of the CPs in the Classic Conquest mode in the Conversion pack if there was a way to do it. They would have made them the color they are in Battlefront 1. If they can't get it to change color no one can.

Neither Tean nor I know everything about the game. I know that we did try, but at least for me I didn't spend a lot of time working on it because it wasn't something that was super-important to me. I would encourage you to try, but don't be too frustrated if you can't figure something out, because people have tried before with only minimal success.

So far no one has been able to figure out how to change the red and blue holo colors for friend and enemy. You can change the color of the holo using the Color and custom setting in the holo odf but the CP won't change when taken over.

I still don't think anyone has tried using a CP with no effects, then removing/applying different effects based on the CP's triggered events.

Hmmm, that's an idea, definitely. Would you just spawn a new holoEffect via lua?

I don't know specifically about attached effects with command posts, but trying to change/remove effects without respawning the object won't get rid of anything - it'll just stack the effects.

You could cyclically kill and respawn two different-colored CPs placed in the same spot in ZE.

Fiodis wrote:You could cyclically kill and respawn two different-colored CPs placed in the same spot in ZE.

CPs are used as objectives in conquest, killing and respawning the CP object would cause issues with the objectives since the object itself would change.