Thread: Lightning Bolt
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Old 01-29-2010, 06:07 PM
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Originally Posted by DustyPorViva View Post
There's actually no need to animate lightning. You can efficiently create lighting by flashing for it just a fraction of a second(1 frame?) and making it fade out. After all, that's how real lightning works. Animating it striking would just make it look slow. I mean, sometimes it works, but I don't think it's really needed in this case. If one frame looks too lacking, can easily flip it for second frame.
Yeah, I agree. The only thing that would probably look good would be what Dusty suggested and maybe some debris and dust or whatever.
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