Since I have not tried making effects yet, I'd like to ask this important question. How easy/hard is it to make effects such as new blaster fx particles?

Say I wanted the blaster fire for all my weapons I make to look like this

Spoiler:

How easy is it to do this? I also would like to make sure the muzzle flash effects are kind of like it too. I don't know why, I just always liked the blaster firing effect in TCW.

Or perhaps, maybe even the effects in the original trilogy...like so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhpS69eAXrU

Don't mean to sound dumb. It's the whole, "Smart in some areas, lacking in others" sort of scenario. Hope modders here don't mind my query. I want my Lok map to both look and feel good while playing it.

Although I've never tried making new blaster particles, I'm fairly sure you can just edit the .tga laser file and darken/enhance it and then in the weapon's odf set it to your new laser texture. If you're talking about the muzzle flashes, that's somethign else.