Lightning

elliotclem1 · February 11, 2007

hi,

I'm kind of new to A:M and i was just wondering how could you make lightning?

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Elliot

Krazyman · February 11, 2007

You could make a lightning DECAL or Animation in an art program, with a transparent background. Paste it onto a big square, flat model, then place it in the background. Fading it in and out when needed, with a few dotted around the background, rotated, moved and rescaled when needed.

Or if you're not that artistic, you could get a picture of lightning and chop off the background, leaving only the lightning. Then using it as a decal, paste it onto your background square model.

I know it works on static images, as I've used this technique before. Along with rain, fog and snowstorms. The snowstorms, I've seen but not tried yet, but know it works.

Think of it like a projector screen, that is transparent, each one containing a lightning bolt Animation or Decal.

the_black_mage · February 11, 2007

here are the same plinks i give anyone that asks, some are more complicated than other scan them and see which gives you hat you want, start with 3 point lighting...

http://www.ypoart.com/tutorials/skylights-intro.htm

http://newtek.com/products/lightwave/tutor...-002/index.html

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10132

http://www.andrew-whitehurst.net/3point.html

http://www.ypoart.com/tutorials/Photon-Mapping.htm

these should help, note that two of these are not directed to animation master be could be useful anyway...

realistic lighting can be achieved with simple lighting, but yes it is also bases on material settings and textures...