[RESOURCE] Thunder & Lightning

[Seba]

Yay for useless crap.

First time I loaded Thundermountain everything seemed meh, until I heard the thunder. I thought it was in the soundscape, but upon opening the decompiled map I saw that they were randomised ambient_generics. So I decided that adding lightning to the thunder would be cool and made some lightning textures, and ta-daa, created this.

Includes:

• five lightning textures
• one white texture (for the optional white flash)
• one sample map (.vmf and .bsp)
• a readme

With the default settings, either of the five lightning bolts will strike at 45- to 120-second intervals. Change the logic_timer entity settings to modify the times. To turn on the white flash which occurs every time lightning strikes, enable the "screenoverlay" visgroup and recompile.



Enjoy.

 

[Dr. Spud]

Pics or it didn't happen.

Also your download is just a readme.

 

[Seba]

It's a .zip with a readme and 'user' folder :|

Added pic to OP.

 

[JMRboosties]

great resource! thanks a lot

 

[Tapp]

btw, in left 4 dead valve uses colour correction to simulate the flash of light given off from lightning.

 

[Dr. Spud]

It's a .zip with a readme and 'user' folder :|

Added pic to OP.

Oh nevermind you're right, my zip program was just hiding it for some reason.

 

[Seba]

btw, in left 4 dead valve uses colour correction to simulate the flash of light given off from lightning.

Matt informed me of that when I linked in chat; he also said that No Mercy uses sprites to light up clouds. I'll look into that tomorrow, probably release 1.1.

 

[cyked]

too bad flame DISABLED COLOR CORRECTION ON THE SERVER!

 

[Mr. Happy]

Why would anyone ever do that? Color correction is one of the most vital aspects of lighting.

On topic: this is really cool, if I make a map with that theme I'll definitely use it and give you the much deserved props.

 

[Grim Tuesday]

too bad flame DISABLED COLOR CORRECTION ON THE SERVER!

Why did he do that?

Make it back. Now.

 

[Moose]

Goddamnit I did this exact same thing and made lightning textures and everything a few weeks ago. Fuck.

 

[Boylee]

Why did he do that?

Make it back. Now.

Because colour correction is for babies.
Pros play in directX 8 with 800x600 resolution.
Fps is all that matters.

 

[Seba]

Goddamnit I did this exact same thing and made lightning textures and everything a few weeks ago. Fuck.

I can give you a cookie if it makes you feel better?

 

[lukechalfant]

Broken link.

 

[Seba]

Oops, I deleted the DB file, thinking I had it on the TF2M servers.

It's back up now, sorry.