Electrical arcs

RedSnappa · Post by **RedSnappa** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:25 am

What is the best way to show arcing electricity as a special effect?

Post by **theRipper** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 3:47 am

possibly a scrolling shader

VanilleOD · Post by **VanilleOD** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:53 am

or just a simple anymap

Post by **Delirium** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:15 am

scrolling shader would be easier, or use NulL's particle studio

RedSnappa · Post by **RedSnappa** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:59 am

Delirium wrote:or use NulL's particle studio

When I have tried that, it slows my framerate to a crawl. I don't really know how to work with it yet though; maybe I am doing something wrong.

Post by **Delirium** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:29 pm

probably doing something wrong, try not so many particles

Post by **xandaxs** » Sat Nov 05, 2011 7:59 pm

there is one on ut4_(s)extremejumps if i recal..

Post by **pickles** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 11:14 am

And ut4_spacejumps has some

Post by **xandaxs** » Sun Nov 06, 2011 5:50 pm

the one on spacejumps is bad looking,! :/
Look @ (s)extremejumps.

Post by **gsigms** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:51 am

"Edge of Forever" has nice ones: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/maps_q3/moteof.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK3K0bZKXLw

beware the map might crash with urt, I had to play it with a vanilla q3

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