I changed the color of the beam, like the actual proton beam not the weapon itself. I tried to change the color of the weapon itself but to be honest, it was very hard to make it look right. Making the colors fade correctly and everything was just beyond my tiny image editing capacity.
I'm not sure exactly how it works but you only need two images (and then I think you need to add an animations.xml.append)
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<animSheet name="beam_p" w="30" h="41" fw="30" fh="41">weapons/beam_p_strip.png</animSheet>
<weaponAnim name="beam_p">
<sheet>beam_p</sheet>
<desc length="1" x="0" y="0" />
<chargedFrame>1</chargedFrame>
<fireFrame>1</fireFrame>
<firePoint x="16" y="13" />
<mountPoint x="3" y="30" />
<chargeImage>weapons/beam_p_glow.png</chargeImage>
</weaponAnim>I don't know if that'll work or not but make an image called "beam_p" and colour the first frame blue. Copy that single frame over the rest if you want or just the one.
The glow itself can be coloured blue or whatever. Here's the fun part about beams - they will automatically glow without needing it to be painted frame-by-frame. You only want multiple frames if say you want parts to light up or something. Heck, you can probably just get away with changing only the glow of the Proton Beam.
If you haven't already, use the colorise tool in GIMP or a "drop shadow" for your glows. If you don't have GIMP, go get it and use it.
Anyways, I am going to change the cooldown of the weapon from 15 seconds to 14 seconds as well, in order to help buff the ship a bit. Even with shielding the ship is so vulnerable with only 2 crew.
