Lightning on demand?

[D_P_]

Does anyone know how to call up some nice lightning flashes on demand?
Not just random flashes, but control when it will strike? I remember this could be done in ofp ...i think
anyone one know how?

[Mandoble]

Yep, as a particle activated with drop command. Check mando_storm  in the Editors Depot and see how it is used there (lightning + light effect over the terrain).

[D_P_]

thanks for the link...I downloaded the mission and looked over the script, but editing drop commands is a little beyond my grasp I wasn't sure how to 'extract' just the lightning bolt.

What I'm looking to do is have the player's heli get struck by lightning and then crash land on an island - it's for a cinematic to start the mission. is it possible to do this without being a scripting wizard? 

[Mandoble]

well, if player is inside the chopper, what he would see is not the lightning itself, but the light of the lightning, is that the case?

[JasonO]

I believe it's the bolt itself that strikes the ground which randomly appears during a storm.
I don't think its possible since (I believe..) it is a texture applied to some sort of face on the edge of the game (where the sky is).

[Planck]

The lightning uses two P3d models:

blesk1.p3d
blesk2.p3d

blesk1 uses:

Textures
--------
ca\data\data\blesk_a_ca.paa
and
ca\data\data\default_flash_2pass.rvmat

Sounds
-------
ca\sounds\data\sound\thundershort ... for near sound
ca\sounds\data\sound\thunderlong2 ... for far sound


blesk2 uses:

Textures
--------
ca\data\data\blesk_b_ca.paa
and
ca\data\data\default_flash_2pass.rvmat

Sounds
-------
ca\sounds\data\sound\thunderhard ... for near sound
ca\sounds\data\sound\thunder ... for far sound


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Planck

[D_P_]

@mandoble...I woulda like to have used a 3rd person view of the bolt striking the heli...but the flash also do the trick.
@Planck...lol dude - i dunno what to do with that code