Lightning Effects - Change Color

[quela]

Trying to make a Purple Lightning effect using the Finger of Death effect. Custom Spell is called "Oblivion".

Followed the trigger events in this doc: Beginner's Guide to Lightning Effects

Thing is the lightning effects remain unchanged and it's still red. What could I be doing wrong?

 

[Chaosium]

I think actions of the sort only work on lightning effects you create via triggers, not the ones used by spells

 

[quela]

I think actions of the sort only work on lightning effects you create via triggers, not the ones used by spells

I guess I am a bit confused? Based on how it was explaining the effect, the action of changing the lightning color would be tied to the lightning effect used in the spell (Condition).

 

[Pyrogasm]

You cannot modify spell lightning effects with triggers because there is no way to refer to the lightning handle itself, since there is no way to enum lightning effects and last created lightning effect is not assigned to them.

Begins casting occurs before mana cost and cooldown are consumed. The lightning effect wouldn’t even exist then. 99% of the time you want to use Starts the effect of an ability.

 

[quela]

So essentially it is not possible without a third party software/download?

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can modify the base texture files in the game and overwrite them with imports. That will affect all lightning using that texture game-wide, though.

 

[Ziadoma]

So essentially it is not possible without a third party software/download?

You can trigger the whole ability and create the lightning effect there.

 

[Uncle]

Note that Lightning created via triggers has been broken for a few patches now (maybe all of Reforged) - unless 1.36 finally fixed it.