Lightning bolt weapon

ColdSorrow · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 29 Jan 2007

Hey everyone I'm new to these forums so excuse me if a thread like this has been posted but:

Does anybody know if it is possible to take the animation of an individual lightning bolt from an ion storm and apply it to a warhead or make it a weapon. It would be pretty awsome to have a tratos spawn lighting bolts wouldnt it?!

Morpher · General **Joined**: 28 Jan 2005

No sorry, ION storm bolts are randomly generated by the game, you can always take a screen shot of one and edit it into a shp animation, but that could be timeconsuming

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:00 pm Post subject:

Or convert RA2s weather storm bolts though that might look cartoonish.

ColdSorrow · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 29 Jan 2007

Then is it possible to creat a warhead which triggers the creation of a lightning bolt. I dont think its radom either. I mean if you look at all the different types of the bolts formed, there isnt much diversity. Also if you play one of the missions in firestorm (the mission when you have to enter 3 different temples, and the first toime you get the juggernaut.) there is a scene 3 lightning bolts are spawned around a guy and they are perfectly symetrical and boltsalways ace th same opposite directions. This brings me to the conclusion that perhaps individual lightning animations can be found in TS.

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DeathRay2K · Commander **Joined**: 01 Sep 2002 **Location**: Canada

No, they cannot.
Lightning, like the special effects in the game, are generated by the engine.
That doesn't mean that they aren't always generated the same, though.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

In the mission you are talking about, the bolts are created with triggers Cool

TiberianFiend · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:44 pm Post subject:

Hold on sec,
what about the Tesla Trooper from RA2?
his particale weapon is electric.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:07 am Post subject:

Ehh, this is TS editing, not RA2. And in RA2 the tesla bolt are also rendered by the game engine. Razz

TiberianFiend · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

Yea but the files are compatable i'm sure there is a partical file
from RA2 tht can be transfered to TS,
I'd like to see a unit that can attack like the paris tower in TS
It could balance out a unit that attacks with meteors.

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John Galt · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 6:35 pm Post subject:

Seriously, people have said this several times already.
"<effect> is generated by the engine" means "there are no graphics files used in the process (except possibly palettes), the game generates <effect> on the fly using predefined code which you can't change".

djohe · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 7:54 am Post subject:

You want the Tesla Bolt from Shock Trooper\Tesla Tank\Tesla Coil or do you want the Ion Storm bolt from Tiberian Sun.
Both of those are rendered by the game program file and does not have any.

There are 2 things you could do in this case:

For Ion Storm: Convert the SHP file of the lightning bolt from the Lightning Storm Super Weapon from Redalert 2 to Tiberian Sun pallete and ill help you code it (only if you promise to actually try to understand how you do it).

And for Tesla Bolt (Sorry about posting this one more time): use the tutorial I wrote on it here: http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11265 that is the closest you can get to a tesla bolt (hope it works for you).

Djohe out.

bonzy_buddy · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 31 Oct 2006

the paris tower is called the Eiffel Tower, please.

Dutchygamer · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

Quote:

the paris tower is called the Eiffel Tower, please.

So what? In the game it is called Paris Tower Razz

TiberianFiend · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

bonzy_buddy wrote:

the paris tower is called the Eiffel Tower, please.

lmao
But In RA2 its called Paris tower
You can re-name it if you REALLY want to
but I Respect westwood too much.
I hope you do too

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TiberianFiend · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 1:53 pm Post subject:

bonzy_buddy wrote:

the paris tower is called the Eiffel Tower, please.

lmao
But In RA2 its called Paris tower
You can re-name it if you REALLY want to
but I Respect westwood too much,
I hope you do too.

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bonzy_buddy · Shrapnel Sniper **Joined**: 31 Oct 2006

erm... I respect paris more

TiberianFiend · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 6:39 pm Post subject:

bonzy_buddy wrote:

erm... I respect paris more

Fair enough.
lol.

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Tyler Adams · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

The Forgotten wrote:

bonzy_buddy wrote:

the paris tower is called the Eiffel Tower, please.

lmao
But In RA2 its called Paris tower
You can re-name it if you REALLY want to
but I Respect westwood too much.
I hope you do too

AACTUALLY.. if you dig through local.mix in RA2.mix, you'll find it's actually the Eiffel Tower. EALA renamed all the monuments & stuff to moar generics. IE, Eiffel Tower - Paris Tower, ect ect after 9/11.

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