Fix: Super Weapon General Particle Cannon Uses Some Blue Effects

[commy2]

ZH 1.04

• The Super Weapon General's Particle Cannon has some blue colored effects mixed in with the pink effects when ready to fire and when getting destroyed, when they all should be pink instead. This looks disgustingly unfinished and rushed.

After patch:

• Same effects are used, but they all are the correct color - the pink of the actual laser beam.

[xezon]

Are the W3D and dds files new or modified assets? If they modify original ones, please add the corresponding original files to GameFilesOriginal.

[xezon]

Where is this used? It's not used in this change.

[commy2]

Also used in SupW_FX_ParticleUplinkDeathInitial ^^

See: https://github.com/xezon/GeneralsGamePatch/pull/288/files#diff-758c48cb4371d9c579a06719a58844bfbcd625b174c0cd405768be6c94396c40R7375

[xezon]

Oh my mistake. Must have clicked the file away when reviewing.

[xezon]

Where is this used? It's not referenced in this change.

[commy2]

Used in SupW_FX_ParticleUplinkDeathInitial. See: https://github.com/xezon/GeneralsGamePatch/pull/288/files#diff-758c48cb4371d9c579a06719a58844bfbcd625b174c0cd405768be6c94396c40R7379

[xezon]

This effect exists already? It's not added in this change.

[commy2]

It's here: https://github.com/xezon/GeneralsGamePatch/pull/288/files#diff-758c48cb4371d9c579a06719a58844bfbcd625b174c0cd405768be6c94396c40R7370

It's a new effect that links the particle systems above.

[commy2]

Are the W3D and dds files new or modified assets?

Copy pasted from the original vanilla USA Particle Cannon, renamed and color edited.

[xezon]

Copy pasted from the original vanilla USA Particle Cannon, renamed and color edited.

Ok in that case we can add the original ones too for reference.

[commy2]

Added the original files. Note that they are from the Generals folder, not ZH. The game loads assets from both, which is why you need to install CCG to install and play ZH.

[xezon]

That's fine.

[xezon]

You added exlaser2.dds as original and exlaser3.dds as edited. Is this intentional?

[commy2]

The original is exlaser2.dds. That effect has to remain as it used for the non-Alex Particle Cannons. exlaser3.dds is an edited version that is pink instead of blue.

I cannot change the name too much, as it appears inside the model file. The model file uses animations, so it's very hard to import and export out of RenX correctly. Instead, I opted to hex editing the filenames of the textures in the W3D file.

[xezon]

Sounds reasonable. Very resourceful.