Subject: Re: Lighting?
From: [email-masked] (Dan Ablan)
To: Multiple recipients of list <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 01:14:41 -0500

>ne1 have any ideas on how to make some lighting bolts ?
>
>I tried the marble procedure but just cant seem to get the look
>I want..

        A lighting bolt works well as an animated image sequence.
        To make the sequence, first model a flat polygon, one segment,
        about half a meter in size, with a 3 to 4 ration.
        For a lightning bolt, you'd probably want to set a marble
        surface texture of something like
        Luminosity                         100%
        Surface Color                     0,0,0
        Surface Texture Type        Marble
        Texture Axis                      Depends on you model
        Texture Size                       75,75,75
        Velocity                              0,-5,5
        Texture Color                      255,255,255
        Frequencies                         5
        Turbulence                          125     
        Vein Sharpness                  8

        You'll probably need to play with the velocity a bit, 
        depending on what you're looking for, but hopefully,
        this will get you started.

        Dan Ablan

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