Hey Everyone,

I saw that someone posted a request for a Lightning Tutorial and I threw this together very quickly....Excuse all the "Uhmm...Ahhh...Ohhh..."

This was totally on the fly, but you get the point.

Lightning Tutorial

This is for beginners and uses Render as Splines to simulate the lightning bolt.

Cheers,

Eugene

Excellent Eugene! I don't care how improvised it is... it was great!

Now I know how to get that Dr. Frankenstein lab equipment working I have in the basement... muhuhahahahaaa!

Gene,
Excellent tute as usual!

Well, you learn something new every day - I would never have guessed that animating the randomness over time would result in a smooth change.

You should file an AM:Report for the Glow's non-appearance in the Surface Properties when Render As Lines is set.

For an off-the-cuff, unplanned demo, that was pretty good!

Gene the glow would make a difference and varying the line width but good for a quick tut

that was me that asked for the tutorial thank

i wanted it for a cool heat ray effect for my war of the worlds short ill post up some animations after im doen

Cuboos,

Give the tutorial a try and you should post an example of your efforts when you are done.

Cheers,

Eugene

thanx for the tut it work out pretty well ill be doing some more animations with it i have some electrical sound effects but none of them worked well with this animation ill make some more later

ok i cant get the movie to post besides putfile.com dose any one know of a place to apload stuff?

As long as the file isn't too big (I think 1Mb is the limit), you can upload directly to the forum.

E

i know its 52 megs i need a web site to post something that big or is there a way to resize it?

I don't know what settings you are using, but I typically use Quicktime with Sorenson 3 Codec (it's in the Render options).

Also, you should check at what resolution you are rendering at. Choose the "Low" setting in the Render options and that should also keep the file size down.

Finally, how long is your animation? This I can't help you with, but usually just a few seconds is plently.

If that still doesn't work out for you, simply post a jpg image of one frame.

Cheers,

Eugene

well it didn't work but the first one was small enought for putfile

http://media.putfile.com/electric34

comments are arpeciated

Nice tut Gene ,I learned a bit more ,just wish I could remember them short cut keys lol.Thank's a lot

heres the other one with sound! i had to make it rely small because it 5 secs long and i had to put it in a zip

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lol is there a way i can convert it into a GIF. so i can use it as an avatar mine is geting old

Nice sound effects!

If you have Photoshop Elements 2 you can build animated GIFs in the Save For Web option (I guess the full Photoshop has this too). Otherwise, there's probably a zillion shareware GIF animators - see such web libraries as Tucows.

i managed to make one as a GIF. makes for a cool avatar too

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Make it better by having it move


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made this pic for... well i dont know why i just did allwell its still cool

Cuboos...Cool idea!

Thanks For the Tut !
It really helped me alot!

Awesome tutorial, but I only have two questions.

I have AM 2003 and I've been looking but I can't find "Ambiance Colour" do you know if it's under another name or somewhere else? If not it's no biggie.

The other is how do I end it to a .mov file like you did? I did "Render Animation Preview" and chose a destination, gave it a filename but then it gives me the error "Unable load file []." when I try to save it.

Oooh, for once I do something that looks cool and I can't show it of!!

I really hope you can help me on this.

Gene-
What software did you use to make that tutorial flash screen capture? It's the cats whiskers!
MC

Matt I think he used Camtasia Studio 3

Hi guys, I'm triying to download this Lighting tutorial, but somehow I can't.
Is there posible that some of you send it to me?
Please?
Thanks and have nice animation time!