.MAP How To Change The Colour Of Shaders And Water

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

Sup. So I was going to make this tutorial with the release of my "Blizzard" mod, but that's taken too long to make as it is and with my Jtag broken I thought I might as well post this.
Before we begin i'll just let you know that I am from Australia. We spell "color" as "colour" here.
This is not actually changing the colour of the shader, but putting a tint on it, or a "mask".
 

How to Change the Colour of Shaders and Water

Requirements:
Ascension
JTAG, RGH or XDK.

Open up a map and select a shader that you want to mod. (rmsh, rmhg, rmfl, etc, they should all work.)

Scroll down to the "Shader Extensions" struct and find a chunk that doesn't have equal RGB values (isn't white), and looks like it is a colour. (Chunk 20 and above controls the main tint of the shader)


Change it to whatever you want and click "Save Changes" or "Poke Changes".


Now because you are poking a shader you will have to reload the map or save it. But thanks to Lord Zedd you can force load checkpoints! Just press F10 and respawn the item with the shader you modded and enjoy!



If the colour is not changing, you will need to add rain to your map. If you don't want the rain, null everything in the rain definition tag. The key is to make sure the "Effect Generation Rate" is set to at least 1 or more.

But wait, there's more! Depending on what chunk you choose, you can control certain aspects of the shader. Including reflections which can occur on different angles and can also depend on what light is being shone on it.

Here's a good example:

Here I changed the colour of the lights on the banshees metal shader, which was originally blue.

You can get really creative with this and do some super cool stuff.
Here are some more examples:

On the topic of colours I might as well tell you how to change the colour of water.

This is pretty much the same as changing shaders like before, considering rmw is a shader.
Open the desired water shader tag (rmw) and scroll down to the "Data" struct.
Again like with changing the colours of shaders, find a chunk that doesn't have equal RGB values (isn't white), and looks like it is a colour. (I've found it's usually 16 with rmw tags)


Change the colours to your liking and click "Poke Changes" or "Save Changes".


Results:


Have fun.
-Krazy Pigeon

[deadcanadian 271]

and as i found with this a few months ago it works best with modified screen effects as the normal ones usually dont show as well. and all of those dont truely set the shader color rather than all the reflection settings, and the one your changing the most show alot better on your snow map than it would on a regular.

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

and as i found with this a few months ago it works best with modified screen effects as the normal ones usually dont show as well. and all of those dont truely set the shader color rather than all the reflection settings, and the one your changing the most show alot better on your snow map than it would on a regular.

Forgot to mention this.

Some shaders work well while some require rain. However if you don't want the rain you can set the screen effect to the default one and null everything else. Just make sure the "Effect generation rate" is greater than 0.

[Mclovin 3]

Thanks for this, I hoped you weren't going to wait until you finished your snow map to post it

edit - that banshee looks amazing

edit2 - this looks so simple but I can't get it lol, plus mine says unknown 3 not shader extensions

edit3 - nevermind I got it, thanks

edit4 - I tried making a cool banshee like yours, but it didn't turn out to good...

The only thing I couldn't change were the trails

Edited August 11, 2012 by Mclovin

[Nowise10 24]

That Highlands map looks legit.

Also nice tutorial, im going to use it on the vehicles now.

Edited August 11, 2012 by Nowise10

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

The only thing I couldn't change were the trails

They are in "[cntl] - contrail".

[Mclovin 3]

Thanks again pigeon, I can't thank you enough.

[FederalGOKU 18]

what plugins are you using?? i cant find any of this :/

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

what plugins are you using?? i cant find any of this :/

Check my sig.

[XxCRAZYPOTATOxX 10]

Great Tutorial!

Edited August 16, 2012 by XxCRAZYPOTATOxX

[thing one 1]

this works great, I was able to do it

but I prefer my map to have no rain i find it to dark, is there any way to take off the rain and still get the shaders

Edited November 17, 2012 by thing one

[SnipeStyle 178]

this works great, I was able to do it

but I prefer my map to have no rain i find it to dark, is there any way to take off the rain and still get the shaders

Havent testes it myself, but according to some comments I read, you should be able to achieve the same effect by editing the default sefc tag, instead of adding extra rain to your map.

[Lord Zedd 1,771]

Havent testes it myself, but according to some comments I read, you should be able to achieve the same effect by editing the default sefc tag, instead of adding extra rain to your map.

I've never had to edit the screen effect to see a change, reloading the checkpoint is all that should be needed.

And if anyone was wondering, this tutorial also applies to Halo 4. (Halo 3 as well)

[thing one 1]

Havent testes it myself, but according to some comments I read, you should be able to achieve the same effect by editing the default sefc tag, instead of adding extra rain to your map.

well it seems that i fixed my problem, all i did was just turn my brightness up in "forge_halo.sefc". I still have the rain tho :S(im new to the modding)

I've never had to edit the screen effect to see a change, reloading the checkpoint is all that should be needed.

And if anyone was wondering, this tutorial also applies to Halo 4. (Halo 3 as well)

well i tryed to change the shaders on forge world with no rain on the map and i could not see my change's (i did reload form checkpoint)

i also found this, i think it looks cool

Edited November 18, 2012 by thing one

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

i also found this, i think it looks cool

You should do that but in split screen. The fp textures actually work.

[thing one 1]

You should do that but in split screen. The fp textures actually work.

ill do that in a bit

[sbckz 6]

Great tutorial, however how do I load checkpoints? when i hit F10 it just gets a pop up that says error :/

[frying_pan 1]

How do you edit the weapon and vehichal shades? i only got the water works woriking i cant find the others

[Krazy Pigeon 102]

How do you edit the weapon and vehichal shades? i only got the water works woriking i cant find the others

Make sure you are selecting the right shader. That's all I can really say

considering it's the same process as the water. Also, have you tried

adding rain?

Edited February 17, 2013 by Krazy Pigeon