I'm having a hard time understanding decals

[SouthernLion]

I basically want to make a hitscan weapon produce the same decal as the plasma rifle projectile (although I want to scale it down smaller, and make it not stay as long.) For some reason I'm having a really hard time understanding the wiki on this particular subject.

[Jarewill]

Alright, I'm not an expert at this, but I've played around with decals a bit.
You need to make a new DECALDEF and in it put:

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fader GoAwayQuickly
{
	DecayStart	0.25
	DecayTime	0.5
}

This should make it disappear faster.
Now for the plasma rifle scorches:

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decal PlasmaCustomScorchLower1
{
	pic PLASMA1
	shade "00 00 00"
	x-scale 0.15
	y-scale 0.15
	randomflipx
	randomflipy
}

decal PlasmaCustomScorch1
{
	pic PLSSA0
	add 1.0
	fullbright
	animator GoAwayQuickly
	lowerdecal PlasmaCustomScorchLower1
	x-scale 0.5
	y-scale 0.5
}

decal PlasmaCustomScorchLower2
{
	pic PLASMA2
	shade "00 00 00"
	x-scale 0.15
	y-scale 0.15
	randomflipx
	randomflipy
}

decal PlasmaCustomScorch2
{
	pic PLSSB0
	add 1.0
	fullbright
	animator GoAwayQuickly
	lowerdecal PlasmaCustomScorchLower2
	x-scale 0.5
	y-scale 0.5
}

decalgroup PlasmaCustomScorchLower
{
	PlasmaCustomScorchLower1	1
	PlasmaCustomScorchLower2	1
}

decalgroup PlasmaCustomScorch
{
	PlasmaCustomScorch1	1
	PlasmaCustomScorch2	1
}

And in the weapon before the states put:

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Decal PlasmaCustomScorch

Or in the DECALDEF:

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generator Weapon PlasmaCustomScorch

Hopefully this helped.
Also don't forget to tweak the fader decay and the x and y scales! I've just made them half as big.

[SouthernLion]

I'm gonna give this a try, and see how it works. Thanks a lot! I was thinking maybe I had to shrink the sprite down in Photoshop. I appreciate all the help. lol

[SouthernLion]

This worked exactly how I was picturing it. I didn't even have to change a single variable in the script. You are the man. lol

[Jarewill]

Glad to have helped. ^^