Colouring power effects

[Ultimo]

So, I have a Blaster who is using Atomic Manipulation.  The first two powers have an interaction where, if you put one of the powers on an enemy already affected by another of them (eg. Electron Shackles and Positron Shell), it will initiate a combined effect called Gamma Ray (I'm not entirely sure what that effect does).

 

The issue is that I can't seem to recolour the Gamma Ray effect, which appears as a puff of green smoke (or some such, the usual radiation effect).  The powers themselves are coloured pale blue and gold, so the green puff is decidedly out of place.

 

Is there some way I don't know of that will let me recolour that puff to match the powers themselves?

If not, may I suggest that such effects be made tintable, like the rest of the power set.

[Snarky]

15 hours ago, Ultimo said:

So, I have a Blaster who is using Atomic Manipulation.  The first two powers have an interaction where, if you put one of the powers on an enemy already affected by another of them (eg. Electron Shackles and Positron Shell), it will initiate a combined effect called Gamma Ray (I'm not entirely sure what that effect does).

 

The issue is that I can't seem to recolour the Gamma Ray effect, which appears as a puff of green smoke (or some such, the usual radiation effect).  The powers themselves are coloured pale blue and gold, so the green puff is decidedly out of place.

 

Is there some way I don't know of that will let me recolour that puff to match the powers themselves?

If not, may I suggest that such effects be made tintable, like the rest of the power set.

prob not.  it is like Domination, the inherent Villin Archetype Dominator power.  which, annoyingly enough, is a F-ing rainbow.  and i will not run the damn things because of it.

[Maelwys]

1 hour ago, Snarky said:

prob not.  it is like Domination, the inherent Villin Archetype Dominator power.  which, annoyingly enough, is a F-ing rainbow.  and i will not run the damn things because of it.

 

 

[SeraphimKensai]

1 hour ago, Snarky said:

it is like Domination, the inherent Villin Archetype Dominator power.  which, annoyingly enough, is a F-ing rainbow.  and i will not run the damn things because of it.

Oh come on Snarky, you love the rainbow. 🌈.

 

@Ultimo there's quite a few power interactions like that that would be nice to color (dark extraction for instance).

[Ghost]

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Edited May 10 by Ghost

[Healix]

Snarky wears this cape...SAID NO ONE EVER  lol

 

[Captain Valiant]

19 hours ago, Ultimo said:

The issue is that I can't seem to recolour the Gamma Ray effect, which appears as a puff of green smoke (or some such, the usual radiation effect).  The powers themselves are coloured pale blue and gold, so the green puff is decidedly out of place.

Am I to understand that, in your universe, blue mixed with yellow/gold -doesn't- make green?
TIL someth!ng new.

Edited May 10 by Captain Valiant

[Scarlet Shocker]

poor poor @Snarky

 

We know a song about that, don't we boys and girls?

 

 

[Snarky]

15 minutes ago, Scarlet Shocker said:

poor poor @Snarky

 

We know a song about that, don't we boys and girls?

 

 

It just goes on and on… and on…

[srmalloy]

On 5/9/2025 at 12:11 PM, Ultimo said:

The issue is that I can't seem to recolour the Gamma Ray effect, which appears as a puff of green smoke (or some such, the usual radiation effect).

And the decision by the Cryptic devs to perpetuate the popular misperception that the color of radiation is green, which came from the green color of radium-illuminated dials and indicators. The radium paint used for this is a combination of a radium salt and a phosphor that glows when stimulated by the radiation from the radium; it's the phosphor that glows green, not the radium. But because the gamma effect is coded with the same incorrect radiation color, and is buried in the code where it's not accessible via power customization, we're stuck with the wrong color for it even if we've recolored all of a character's radiation powers.

[Doctor Thunder]

On 5/11/2025 at 7:37 AM, srmalloy said:

And the decision by the Cryptic devs to perpetuate the popular misperception that the color of radiation is green, which came from the green color of radium-illuminated dials and indicators. The radium paint used for this is a combination of a radium salt and a phosphor that glows when stimulated by the radiation from the radium; it's the phosphor that glows green, not the radium. But because the gamma effect is coded with the same incorrect radiation color, and is buried in the code where it's not accessible via power customization, we're stuck with the wrong color for it even if we've recolored all of a character's radiation powers.

That's why most of my rad characters (Like Dr. Cherenkov) have all effects a nice BLUE. 

 

On 5/11/2025 at 7:37 AM, srmalloy said:

And the decision by the Cryptic devs to perpetuate the popular misperception that the color of radiation is green, which came from the green color of radium-illuminated dials and indicators. The radium paint used for this is a combination of a radium salt and a phosphor that glows when stimulated by the radiation from the radium; it's the phosphor that glows green, not the radium. But because the gamma effect is coded with the same incorrect radiation color, and is buried in the code where it's not accessible via power customization, we're stuck with the wrong color for it even if we've recolored all of a character's radiation powers.