Wisp colours

[Arietna]

I can't be the only essence gatherer who wishes different tier wisps were different colours?

It's not the wisp itself usually - at least when you get close they have floaty names.. but the wisp essence on the ground..

Any chance for a future change that wisps could have a tint depending on their tier?

dim - yellow
pale - blue
glowing - pink
bright - green

oh you know what I mean

[tramsan]

Yes!!

Actually, it should be rather easy to do this as a mod, altering the tint files found in horizons\resources\textures\tints. I have no idea if this tint applies to wisps, residue or inventory icons, though, or any combination of them. (Easy to test, though.)

[Arietna]

mmm worth a try.. just re-found out about changing .act files

ok.. experimenting..

[Arietna]

oh pook, got to change the override directory too...

[Arietna]

right.. the essence_bright.act etc files are the ones that colour the essence/orbs/spheres etc in your inventory, not the mobs.. (but looks great I may add!)

[tramsan]

\horizons\resources\textures\characters\mobilereso urces\wisp (space auto-added by silly forum)

Take a look at these. They're shader files - plain text. At first glance it looks like you can change the wisp's orb and internal glow independently, which would be rather neat.

[Arietna]

aye, I saw that, however there's only the one file (well one for internal glow, and one for colour) - so if those files were changed, it'd change all of them, not just all pale wisps (for instance) or am I wrong?

(edited to say no I am wrong, there's one for each type, I had spotted similar files in another location).

I'll play with these tomorrow..

(5 mins later)

ok, the files refer to/Horizons/resources/textures_agh/characters/mobileresources/wisp/com_resource_wisp_env_white.agh

I'm assuming that the .agh file has definitions in it defining a white wisp (and wisp essence).. BUT what can read a .agh file?

[tramsan]

AGH are texture files. I poked around in the logs a bit, and noticed that all the residue are identical apart from the name, so we will have no success altering them. I managed to get the wisps themselves to change colour though, but since the residue was the primary objective, I had to take a different approach:

http://community.istaria.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=17822


If you'd still want the wisps (and only the wisps) coloured, however, that can be done.

[Arietna]

wisps of different colours would also be cool. I'm reasonably ok with altering files, any chance of a PM to let me know how to do this? (or post here, I'm easy either way).

That way we can pick own colours...

Your mod for the floaty names is a great fix.

[Arietna]

ok, I've uploaded a mod to the player customization forum.. Wisps are now a different colour depending on their tier.
Tier 1 - dim - yellow (wisps, gathered essence, orbs, construction items)
Tier 2 - pale - blue (wisps, gathered essence, orbs, construction items)
Tier 3 - glowing - red (wisps, gathered essence, orbs, construction items)
Tier 4 - bright - red outside, yellow sparkle (wisps only)
Tier 5 - shining - yellow outside, blue sparkle (wisps only)
Tier 6 - radiant - blue outside, red sparkle (wisps only)