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Thank you! but here is what I got when I rendered it out material.mov

Thanks! I figure add in rain and flashes of light it should work pretty good. When I started this thread I had no idea what I was going to do to achieve a good effect. But looks like it will be ok. Still curious about material effecter. But I am quite pleased with results so far. And I posted 3 of my lightning models for anyone wanting them. Gene

Thanks!

newvideo4.mov

newvideo.mov the last strike I made it fade slower. newvideo2.mov

I am using a cartoon look basically so being completely realistic is not needed. using the three I have now randomly along with rain effects should be a great effect. The animated gradient I am deffinantly interested in. Hoping someone will take one of my models and show me how it looks. I am a bit confused but I am sure it is easy once you know how. Gene

lightning bolt3

It is very cool One thing it laggs so is a "material effector list" (so you can specify which objects are effected and which are not, like a Lightlist does for lights...) In these situation where you have to do that you will need to animate a gradient-material. Gradientmaterials are less not that well to handle and cant be positioned with the mouse-pointer (and cant effect several different objects) but they can be used at only one object. The best thing possible would be a materialeffector with a "material-effector-list" and one that could be specified like a boolen cutter, so that you could give it any kind of shape. With that it would be one of the most powerful tools... today it is very handy too, but we will see what can be done in future... I have written a report for that. *Fuchur* Would it be possible for you to take my model and show me an example? Right now I am about to pull a brain muscle taking this all in. LOL Gene

Very cool!

I am totaly lost in what a material effector is the file does not download

lightningbolt.mdl lightningbolt2.mdl enjoy. some bad patches but with this model it does not matter.

Made another bolt.

It's a Scotsman on a horse Looks like a spaceship actually.

how can that be accomplished?

I am disabled so no work for me. I deffinantly need to work on texturing and to be honest I have no idea how to do after effects. That will be something to learn later. I try to learn a new lesson on each video that makes the whole of the video better. water and fluids are the big lesson on this video. Thank you! Gene

Trying to design my own lightning effects for new video. I had no idea where to start. So I actually modeled my own bolt of lightning. Added some glow effect and got an effect thats not too bad at all. before I spend more hours modeling another bolt of lightning so I have several I wanted to see what the experts here have to tell me. Thanks Gene tessst.mov tessst.mov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-NyVHoCvns

Looks perfect

Thank you!

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awesome!

That sounded wrong on several levels