Changing color of spell effects

Is there a way to change the color of spell effects, e.g. make Chain Lightning red, without having to import files?
For units you can easily change the tinting values, but I cannot find a way to change spell graphics as easy.

For chain lighting just changes its art to finger of death that should do it .if not just edit the tga of chain lighting to what you want then save it to blp and load it into your map.

He said without importing.

The first soluiton I gave him was without inporting he could use the finger of death spell art since its the same as chain lighting. Next time try to read peoples post befor jumping the gun.

Ok red Chain Lightning was probably not a good example because it can indeed be solved easily with the Finger of Death lightning; thanks for the hint anyway, I would not have thought of it myself. However, most other spells don't offer this possibility.

So there is no general way to change the color of spell / missile graphics without importing?

I don't know how extensive war3's lighting system is, but you might be able to do something with lighting and detecting when a spell fires...but that's really not worth it

I know what he said Cooler, I was telling you. Your solution for all sfx'es was not what he wanted.