Weapon Colors

[Iron-Snake-]

So I was thinking... (dangerous already).

What if we could choose a different color per weapon? Sort of like in Battletech/Mechwarrior where each weapon type has blue/green/red laser colors.

I don’t hold out hope seeing as we can’t even get a HUD color choice but I thought it was worth mentioning.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

So I was thinking... (dangerous already).

What if we could choose a different color per weapon? Sort of like in Battletech/Mechwarrior where each weapon type has blue/green/red laser colors.

I don’t hold out hope seeing as we can’t even get a HUD color choice but I thought it was worth mentioning.

Longing for the return of the Rainbow Beam Boats?

How about a different color for each drive as well?

 

[lecorsobreton]

There already are different colors, according to the special effect you engineered on your weapon. For example, my thermal vent beam lasers are red.

 

[Iron-Snake-]

Ohh I didn’t realize that engineering could change the colors. That’s cool.

 

[Amargosa]

They still need to add an Orange weapon color in the store, to go with the fiery Orange exhaust color.

 

[Bryan K]

They still need to add an Orange weapon color in the store, to go with the fiery Orange exhaust color.

Right!? I want orange PA shots. I’d love to know why they skipped orange, since it appears to be FDev’s favorite color.

 

[Iron-Snake-]

Noooo. No more orange. lol

 

[Schmack]

I'd like to have an ice cream shooter that shoots soft serve ice cream at opposing ships, that way if you hit a fed by mistake they would just thank you for it.

 

[Stealthie]

Must admit, I was quite disappointed to find I couldn't apply different colours to different weapons.

For added functionality, I was hoping to be able to set different types of weapon (lasers, kinetic, special) to different colours or set different fire-groups to different colours to help me see what, exacly, was going on mid-battle.

If the ability to select the weapon colour of individual weapons is too much, perhaps it'd be possible to pick, say, 3 weapon colours in the Livery page and then apply any of those 3 colours to each weapon?

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Longing for the return of the Rainbow Beam Boats?

How about a different color for each drive as well?

The Nyancat T10?

 

[Mags885]

Don't be tight and go buy the weapon colour of your choice from the frontier store. Granted you are restricted to changing them all but at least you can change them.

 

[Arthur Shappey]

It makes sense - in my deluded little world, how I can change the colour of the laser beams.

What I find odd is that my bullets get recoloured too... Is there someone in the space station paid to check what colour to paint all my ammo? What a cruel and menial galaxy it must be.

 

[Stealthie]

What I find odd is that my bullets get recoloured too... Is there someone in the space station paid to check what colour to paint all my ammo? What a cruel and menial galaxy it must be.

[video=youtube;yiSJ8-3UeTQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSJ8-3UeTQ[/video]

 

[Shiro Akai]

Any PvP would be like this:

IMMA FIRIN MY LAZOR!!!!

 

[Dural]

I'd like to be able to set the reticule colours and type. Trying to mix fixed and gimballed weapons and ending up with a sea of little orange dots swimming about makes aiming the fixed stuff quite tricky.

 

[Straker]

They still need to add an Orange weapon color in the store, to go with the fiery Orange exhaust color.

Yes, I would like orange weapon colours too. I'm lucky they made the HUD orange by default. I love the orange and black combo. I also enjoy gloating when others complain about the orange HUD colour

I think being able to colour your different weapons would be good, though I can see how it would be a UI nightmare. With most things like this, it's not necessarily a backend technical issue that stops them from supporting this, it's usually trying to fit it into the UI paradigm that makes it difficult. Damn UIs, we should all just have a command line interface instead

set currentship weaponcolour hardpoint1 MAXIMUM_ORANGE

sudo set enemyship weaponcolour hardpoint1 PINK

 

[Lily from anim.o.v.e]

yes, getting individual colors would be great to have some more visual feedback and fun in general.

 

[SkyB]

Longing for the return of the Rainbow Beam Boats?

How about a different color for each drive as well?

My Conda runs six beam turrets... i need this.
+ sparkles coming from the engines when I boost and a pink paintjob.

Hell no, this is ED, not my little pony.

 

[VonBlade]

They still need to add an Orange weapon color in the store, to go with the fiery Orange exhaust color.

All of my this.

 

[Pville_Piper]

Longing for the return of the Rainbow Beam Boats?

How about a different color for each drive as well?

Definitely need to use these with caution when using onion head...