[Mod Request] Fireworks Mod

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I had the idea of implementing various missiles with firework-like effects for a US Independence Day themed mod. These missiles would have randomly colored explosions, fragments, and particles in order to imitate the various fireworks I see on the 4th of July. However, I do not have much experience with EffectType.
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primaryColor and secondaryColor can be set within the <GetParameters> event of some effects. Value might be in string form, and might need to concatenate strings. "#" <red hexadecimal value from 0-255, or 00-ff> <green hexadecimal value> <blue hexadecimal value>.

You may need some way to convert normal decimal values to hexadecimal.

I made some fireworks style weapons for Drake Technologies Alpha and Item Pack 912 years ago before I phased them out, but some of the code I used is still present.

Just simply picking random colors results in a pastel-like rainbow colors. You may want to select color based on a timestamp or some other criteria. Or it could be something fixed, simple, but bulky like having multiple <Fragments> that are the same except for color.
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PM wrote:
Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:00 pm
primaryColor and secondaryColor can be set within the <GetParameters> event of some effects. Value might be in string form, and might need to concatenate strings. "#" <red hexadecimal value from 0-255, or 00-ff> <green hexadecimal value> <blue hexadecimal value>.

You may need some way to convert normal decimal values to hexadecimal.

I made some fireworks style weapons for Drake Technologies Alpha and Item Pack 912 years ago before I phased them out, but some of the code I used is still present.

Just simply picking random colors results in a pastel-like rainbow colors. You may want to select color based on a timestamp or some other criteria. Or it could be something fixed, simple, but bulky like having multiple <Fragments> that are the same except for color.
And hopefully I can help out here too :)

170 colors ( found in Shipyards)
http://forums.kronosaur.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=7665

Examples :
you will notice that you can set color / colors , opacity of those colors
configuration of shot, muzzle flash :
type of style : Plain, jagged, flare, spray, cloud, etc....

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			<Effect>
				<Particle
						style=			"plain"
						minWidth=		"3" 
						maxWidth=		"6"
						primaryColor=	"0xfc, 0xe8, 0x87"
						secondaryColor=	"0x85, 0x0c, 0x0f"
						/>
			</Effect>
			

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		<Weapon
				type=				"missile"

				repeating=			"4"
				damage=				"ion:1d8"
				fireRate=			"15"
				missileSpeed=		"100"
				lifetime=			"60"
				interaction=		"0"
				powerUse=			"650"

				sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"
				>

			<Effect>
				<Ray
						style=			"jagged"
						shape=			"tapered"
						length=			"108"
						
						primaryColor=	"#00d5ff"
						secondaryColor=	"#006b80"
						>
					<Events>
						<GetParameters>
							(block (
								(damageHP (@ gData 'damageHP))
								)
								{
									width: (mathScale damageHP 10 140 20 40 50)
									intensity: 60
									}
								)
						</GetParameters>
					</Events>
				</Ray>
			
				<ParticleComet
						particleCount=	"200"
						primaryColor=	"#00d5ff"
						>
					<Events>
						<GetParameters>
							(block (
								(damageHP (@ gData 'damageHP))
								)

								{
									particleCount: (mathScale damageHP 10 140 100 300 50)
									length: 72 ;(mathScale damageHP 10 140 60 220 50)
									width: 15
									}
								)
						</GetParameters>
					</Events>
				</ParticleComet>
			</Effect>
		</Weapon>

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		<Weapon
				type=				"missile"

				repeating=			"4"
				damage=				"positron:2d8"
				fireRate=			"20"
				missileSpeed=		"90"
				lifetime=			"34"
				interaction=		"0"
				powerUse=			"3500"

				sound=				"&snLaserCannon;"
				>

			<Effect>
				<Shape
						directional=		"true"
						scaleLength=		"72" 
						scaleWidth=			"6"

						scaleLengthInc=		"3" 

						color=				"0x00, 0x80, 0x80"
						opacity=			"140"
						>
					<Point x="0"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-35"	y="50"/>
					<Point x="-100"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-35"	y="-50"/>
				</Shape>

				<Shape
						directional=		"true"
						scaleLength=		"72" 
						scaleWidth=			"4"

						scaleLengthInc=		"3" 

						color=				"0x00, 0x80, 0x80"
						opacity=			"255"
						>
					<Point x="0"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-35"	y="50"/>
					<Point x="-100"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-35"	y="-50"/>
				</Shape>

				<Shape
						directional=		"true"
						scaleLength=		"64" 
						scaleWidth=			"3"

						scaleLengthInc=		"3" 

						color=				"0x00, 0x80, 0x80"
						opacity=			"255"
						>
					<Point x="0"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-25"	y="50"/>
					<Point x="-100"	y="0"/>
					<Point x="-25"	y="-50"/>
				</Shape>
			</Effect>
		</Weapon>
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I've been playing with <GetParameters> and effects for a while.
I do have random colored weapons, rainbow weapons and a number of supporting functions in WE6 such as:
- RGB to HSL converter.
- dec to hex to dec (taken from alterecco's DSF, and fixed because it has a bug)
- function that converts '(0xAA 0xBB 0xCC) to "#AABBCC" color formats
- colornamer function with over 1000 names of colors. (converted to transLisp from a javascript function)
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