LaserOuterSpread
How far each channel of a laser beam's glow may wander from its color, redrawn every frame.
- Applies to
- WeaponType
- File
rules.ini- Section
[<ObjectType ID>]- Value
- colour (R,G,B)
- When omitted
0,0,0
Three channel figures, each the largest step the matching channel of LaserOuterColor may take in either direction. A fresh offset is picked for every channel on every frame the beam is drawn and the result is held to the 0-to-255 range, so the glow shimmers over the beam’s life instead of sitting at one flat color. The offset applies to the whole glow at once, not per pixel, and the beam’s core is never touched by it.
[MyObeliskRay] ; example WeaponTypeIsLaser=yesLaserOuterColor=128,0,0LaserOuterSpread=40,0,0 ; the glow's red wanders between 88 and 168Since the glow is drawn by blending its red alone at normal detail, only the red figure has a visible result there; the green and blue figures shimmer a color that is never put on the screen. All three show at the lowest detail setting, which draws the glow flat in its full color. A glow suppressed by a LaserOuterColor of 0,0,0 is not brought back by any spread.
The figures are read from the weapon in the object’s first slot whichever slot fired.