Dread Lords Red Lightning Effect

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The red lightning weapon the Dread Lords use when they invade looks really awesome, and I was wondering if it was possible to be able to have other races use the effect.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm not really sure what you're refering too... but that may be because I don't pay enough attention.. but you're link leads knowhere, but I assume it is showing what you mean?
Galactic Civilizations IV
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Oh, now I get you LOL.
I'll be honest I wipe the DL's out before they invade my worlds, so i've not seen that effect in long time.

To be honest, I have no idea where that graphic is stored in the files, but I assume there has got to be something in there somewhere. Sorry I can't offer any help, but i'm sure someone here will provide an answer soon.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just curious but you lost the invasion of Florin 1 in the screenshot right??? or by some miracle did your your troops manage to pull a victory out of that??
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I found where the sprite graphic for the beam resides in: GalCiv2\Gfx\Weapons\WFX_PlasmaAndBlast.png but I cannot find the .X file for the Dread Lords style beam, I would think it would be called something like WFX_Blast01.X but it isn't there.
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@ZendoXarth: That screenshot is not mine, it was taken from the Game Example page in the Databanks. From what I have read of that, the player who took this screenshot had to invade more than once before he captured the planet.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Any stardock members know how to give other races the red lightning effect when invading another planet?
Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I found where the sprite graphic for the beam resides in: GalCiv2\Gfx\Weapons\WFX_PlasmaAndBlast.png but I cannot find the .X file for the Dread Lords style beam, I would think it would be called something like WFX_Blast01.X but it isn't there.


I am pretty sure it is WFX_SubspaceBlast01.X
Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wonder if someone could mod this to be used with a custom race.....
Reply #12 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@General Pants: Thanks a lot for that! Do you know if it would be possible to have it specific for a custom race, like how the effect is only specific to the dread lords, or would that require a hard-coded rewrite (which is impossible right now)?
Reply #13 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
@General Pants: Thanks a lot for that! Do you know if it would be possible to have it specific for a custom race, like how the effect is only specific to the dread lords, or would that require a hard-coded rewrite (which is impossible right now)?


AFAIK, it is hard-wired. You can use the effect for weapons, though. I imagine it'll look something like the "force-lightning" from Star Wars.