As an animation effect this should be in uGearsRender. Plus it'll still spark when paused then, which is kinda fun.
This tool allows editing the contents of .hwmap files as human-readable text.
Dependencies:
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Needs Qt / qmake to build
Instructions:
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Build with these 2 commands:
qmake hwmapconverter.pro
make
If compiled successfully, run with:
./hwmapconverter