Gradient color on Halo Material - help please.

Ive got a plane setup with halo material in blender internal, but i cant for the life of me make it anything other than one solid color. I would like a mix of color from red to blue, ive tried making a texture of type blend and adding a color ramp, and then i checked the texture box in the halo material but nothing happens, so i guess thats not how to do it.

You could make and use an image texture to define your colour. Example linked.

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Redbluegradient.blend (507 KB)

That seems to work quite well thanks.