Disable lightning of lg

[maltyplaya]

It shouldn't be lagging when you switch weapons. If you have premium, try using the weapon config menu that was added a relatively recently. It would be nice if we could remove the LG beam, I also want to be able to change the colour. Red lightning would just look so cool.

[Pier4R]

is there a console command to have gunZ only affect LG ? i tried the weapon options but they are horrid; they induce lag as the cfg is re-written every time you switch weapons (srsly ppl?), they affect all weapons even though they should be weapon-specific (zoomFOV, gunZ etc .. are buggy). they suck.

Yes, you should use aliases (even if i use cg_gunZ on all weapons), and no the cfg is not rewritten entirely but you change only the value of some commands (as you type them in console).
Moreover it can be a lot of work is you change a cvar frequently (let's say, each 0.5sec) but i'm not sure but eems that quake deny fast changes. For example i know thta my brain manage continous sounds very bad, so i want to disable hitbeens on lg, then i use:

//alias for sens change
alias +attackLg "+attack; sensitivity 7.6; cl_mouseaccel 0.005; cg_hitBeep 0;"
alias -attackLg "-attack; otherWeapSettings"
alias lgSettings "bind MOUSE1 +attackLg"
alias otherWeapSettings "bind MOUSE1 +attack; sensitivity 7.6; cl_mouseaccel 0.042; cg_hitBeep 2"

But cg_hitbeep sometimes stick to 0 or to 1 when i change the weapon too fast, so maybe the system avoid fast changes to avoid lags (due computation required).