okay I've got makeing the bitmap almost down and I made a illumanation bitmap I think it works but Im not sure where or how to learn how to make a multipurpose bitmap and from what I hear to achieve some small glowing affects on my weapon I need a multipurpose bitmap... :(

look in the shader tag and it will give u the color channels and their effects. You read those then use color saturation on the parts u want to color match for the corresponding effect.

and use an alpha channel so the black parts won't be affected at all, black is cheap, alpha wins