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Lightning
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:03 pm
by carfanaticphil
Is there a way you can make lightning actually affect your surroundings? like when it hits the ground, it scorches it? wouldnt you need an effect for that? and before any pre-empted "meh you would need a custom effect", couldnt you use the effects where a blaster bolt hits the ground and it scorches it for a brief period of time and theres abit of smoke?
could you also set it up so that it deals damage to players who happen to be in the firing line?
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:13 am
by PsYcH0_]-[aMsT3r
Hmm... Not to sure about this. The blaster have a collision effect for when it hits the ground. Lightning itself is just a effect but it fires a kinda invisible shot. I think just adding these lines to the ordance for it will make it do the effect, but I make be wrong.
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ImpactEffectSoft = "com_sfx_ord_exp"
ImpactEffectRigid = "com_sfx_ord_exp"
ImpactEffectStatic = "com_sfx_ord_exp"
ImpactEffectTerrain = "com_sfx_ord_exp"
ImpactEffectWater = "com_sfx_watersplash_ord"
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:57 am
by Teancum
How much lightning are you talking? Even in really awful rainstorms lightning only strikes every couple'a minutes, meaning it's still very unlikely you'll ever be hit by it.
Then again I don't know what you're shooting for.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:44 am
by PsYcH0_]-[aMsT3r
Oh! I thought you meant force-lightning. Anyway you might be able to make it as a dispensable weapon but I don't know about a random lightning strike.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:47 am
by Teancum
My mistake. I misread his post.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:52 am
by PsYcH0_]-[aMsT3r
Wait. This is confusing. Were just stuck contradicting ourselfs. I think its force-lightning he means. Anyway, assuming it is, just add those lines I posted and it should effect the ground like a shot but I think it'll only do it once in a burst.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:08 pm
by carfanaticphil
lol no i dont mean force lightning
i mean what tean said, actual lightning from clouds
it doesnt matter about the occasionally hitting you thing, i just want to know if you can add something that makes it affect the ground, and possibly to hurt you.
ooooh, could there be something that makes it attraaaact to a certain player, on whatever circumstances like lowest health or lowest stamina or whatever.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:25 pm
by DarthD.U.C.K.
you want a waepon that causes a "lightning orbital strike"?
im not shure if thats possible, but it could work
im shure you can make it hurting the unit that fires it, but i cant find the odf-parameter for that
Re: Lightning
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 4:02 pm
by carfanaticphil
yeh, like an orbital strike beakon, but just one long, continuous beam of lightning.
Re: Lightning
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 11:11 am
by Tygr
This just game me an awesome idea; Palpatine's Force Storm! You could have him "summon" it, (He would drop an invisible orbital strike beacon) and then several lightning strikes would hit in a relatively small area around him.
It would make Palpatine a lot more canon, I think. He seemed awful wimpy in the game, and don't get me started on the stock Force Lightning sound effect...
