Weapon crit glow

[trupizza]

does anybody with enough knowledge of the technical stuff of this game know how i could edit the color of a weapon when it's activated with crits? not the electrical spark effect, but the model's actual color. like when you're ubering as a kritzkrieg, the kritzkrieg glows in your team's color. does anyone know if i could change the color, or outright disable it at all? thx

[green]

I've tampered with my fair share of game models-- the crit glow isn't a part of the model. That is, it's not part of the $skinfamilies header in the qc file. My guess would be it's either part of the VMT or part of a larger system I'm not aware of.

[Martin Of Redwall]

toaster graphic settings

[trupizza]

Well, I've searched it before, since i'm trying to make some weapon models from RED team give off the BLU glow effect for a mod I'm making. upon looking at the valve developer website or whatever it was called, it's apparently controlled by the weapon's VMT's $glowcolor value, but every single weapon for both teams is labeled at 1, and upon editing the glowcolor value in the material editor in-game, it doesn't change. setting it to 0, 2, 3, etc. anyone have any ideas?

[green]

Can you post the weapon's VMT here? Preferably using the [code] [/code] format

[trupizza]

ah, sure. never used that format but here we go. here's the main one i'm trying to get, the Medigun, because it uses the same model as the kritzkrieg (overhealer):

 "VertexLitGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture"	"models/weapons/c_models/c_medigun/c_medigun_blue"
	"$phongexponenttexture" "models/weapons/c_models/c_medigun/c_medigun_exp"
	
	"$phong" "1"
	//commented out to use the exponent mask
	//"$phongexponent" "255"
	"$phongboost" "4"	
	
	//scales up the exponent texture which usually only has about 120 levels of exponent
	"$phongexponentfactor"  "135"
	"$phongalbedotint" "1"
	
	"$lightwarptexture" "models/lightwarps/softened_weapon_lightwarp"
			
	"$phongfresnelranges"	"[.3 .5 3]"
	"$halflambert" "1"
	"$glowcolor" "1"
	
	"$envmap" "env_cubemap"
	"$envmaptint" "[.032 .032 .032]"

	"$tempvar" "0"

	//commented out to use the exponent mask
	//"$basephongexponent" "15"
	//"$basephongboost" "3"

	"$basemapalphaphongmask" "1"
	
	"$rimlight" "1"						
	"$rimlightexponent" "2"				
	"$rimlightboost" "2.5"
	"$rimmask" "1"
	

	// Cloaking
	"$cloakPassEnabled" "1"
	"$sheenPassEnabled" "1"

	"$sheenmap" 		"cubemaps/cubemap_sheen001"
	"$sheenmapmask" 		"Effects/AnimatedSheen/animatedsheen0"
	"$sheenmaptint" 		"[ 1 1 1 ]"
	"$sheenmapmaskframe" 	"0"
	"$sheenindex" 		"0"

	"$yellow" "0"

	"Proxies"
	{
		"AnimatedWeaponSheen"
		{
			"animatedtexturevar" 		"$sheenmapmask"
			"animatedtextureframenumvar" 	"$sheenmapmaskframe"
			"animatedtextureframerate" 		"40"
		}
		"invis"
		{
		}
		"ModelGlowColor"
		{
			"resultVar" "$glowcolor"
		}
		"Equals"
		{
			"srcVar1"  "$glowcolor"
			"resultVar" "$selfillumtint"
		}
		"Equals"
		{
			"srcVar1"  "$glowcolor"
			"resultVar" "$color2"
		}
		"YellowLevel"
		{
			"resultVar" "$yellow"
		}
		"Multiply"
		{
			"srcVar1" "$color2"
			"srcVar2" "$yellow"
			"resultVar" "$color2"
		}
	
	
		"WeaponSkin" {		
		}
	}
} 

[green]

I'm fairly certain the vmt line is unrelated now, as the two team's vmts are identical, spare the $basetexture line. I even decompiled the model, and saw nothing about the crit material in the qc, or in the mesh's used materials... I'm quite stumped, right now.

[trupizza]

if it's hardcoded, would it be possible to edit it at all?

[green]

Probably not. Again, you could try downloading another mod that changes the team color (I've seen green team mods, for example), and see if they pulled it off. If not, it's probably hard coded somewhere, and most likely untouchable.

[trupizza]

alright i'll check it out. thanks a ton for your time man