electric ball in blender? :P

hej, does anyone know a easy and good way to make kind of a lightning ball in blender?

something like this :stuck_out_tongue:

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm196/mrwap0n/god-of-war2-image-09.jpg

a plane witha texture! :stuck_out_tongue:

yes but it has to do an animation. and I don’t think that posible in game engine?

what kind of animation?

an animated gif, so that the lightning is, uhm, moving? Just like a man made lightning between 2 bulbs if you know what I mean :stuck_out_tongue:

Doc Holiday has a blend file called TileTex5in1 ? that does exactly what you want.

Do a search on this forum or Google his homepage

(sorry don’t have the link handy)

I made this “plasma” ball a while back. Also has separate lightnings coming out of the ball as in your example. Hope it helps.

Attachments

plasmaball.blend (113 KB)

http://www.neewo.de/ToolsDemos.html

Download TileTex5in1, It has an example of electricity. The ball itself should be rather simple to figure out after picking apart the blend file.

Good luck.

for the animations just use an armature. look at p00fs game Brix, he has some pretty cool lightning effects using a simple IPO animation.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=126210

thx a lot! it really helped :slight_smile: