<t> well no it doesn't, the color of your bolt is only controlled by the color of the bitmap,<br/>
and your weapon def is missing this bitmap parameter, without it you won't see any colorful weapon effect<br/>
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to give you an example of how such a bitmap can look like open the attachment to ...

<t> Thanks again Damo [&o]<br/>
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but even with your file I have the same problems [&:], I see the Mars, and my Cruiser in front of it, but the backround Poly_Star.mag won't show up correctly, only a white backround is visible, <br/>
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is this a bug or am I doing something wrong again ...

<t> Hi,<br/>
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I have some serious problems to get this poly_stars.mags work correctly, can someone post me a screenshot of a poly_star. mag from Magic<br/>
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the only thing i see at the moment is a black sky behind my planets and ships or the other time I saw just a white screen and ...

<t> 2. no at the moment i don't think it's possible, perhaps in SS2<br/>
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3. yes no problem just had the amount of ammo the weapon should have to the<br/>
weapons def file<br/>
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4. yes it's possible even if i have some serious problems with that at the moment ( I still <br/>
use the ...

<t> Sorry, but I think you cannot use the original images/sounds cause we don't have access to them, they are all in the packed dat file.<br/>
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But, if you only want to modify the firing arc you can modify it in the ship.def, <br/>
don't know if this also works with the weapons Milo had made ...

<t> Don't know if that is what you looked for but here is one of my old test weapon.defs of a Particle Laser Beam with 2 part turret model:<br/>
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WEAPON<br/>
beam: {<br/>
name: "PLGun", // Particle Laser Turret<br/>
group: "Beam",<br/>
target_type: 0x000fffff,<br/>
value: 3,<br/>
<br ...