Seeing we are going around with the fps-savers, I have an idea.

The sprite for the active phase gate takes alot of your fps.

My idea is just to make the teleportion grid have blueish or yellowish glow to it, Such like it looks like its warm.

What do you think?

changing the glow and changing the sprite are two different things. if the sprite is dragging your fps down (though i don't see how), i'll make a null sprite for you. that should help...

No it doesn't for me, but when I had my old intel extreme intergrated poo poo it did >_<

9600XT

You talking about the sprites or the actual color glow?

The color glow is in the particle effects somewhere, but i dont know if you can change the light color. Sounds something you should try yourself, since it seems like a good and somewhat simple project to learn something out of.