Need some electricity

[antstubell]

Does anybody have suggestions how I can simulate electricity? I have the idea of sparks flying, visible bolts of electirc that can be activated by a lever, triggerbox, script etc.

[rarborman]

Lightning effects? Weapon hit sparks? Smoke? I'm sure you wont have to make any.

 

Unless its an extreme amount of electricity it'd not be very realistic to have massive electric effects on anything but very unmaintained stuff. Movie electricity is all effects, unless it can kill you instantly and jump through the air you probably not going to actually see electricity in anywhere but dark rooms, and only little archs of tiny discharge.

 

But who cares this is a game, go all out.

[antstubell]

Lightning effects? Weapon hit sparks? Smoke? I'm sure you wont have to make any.

 

Unless its an extreme amount of electricity it'd not be very realistic to have massive electric effects on anything but very unmaintained stuff. Movie electricity is all effects, unless it can kill you instantly and jump through the air you probably not going to actually see electricity in anywhere but dark rooms, and only little archs of tiny discharge.

 

But who cares this is a game, go all out.

The Sparks spell is a good idea but how do I control it, activate it from an object. E.g. An electric chair, sparks flying 'n' all that stuff.

[steve40]

Just script the electric chair to cast lightning spells at nearby objects. And/or apply a suitable lightning shader to the object's surface. In my Jaws mod I applied a subtle electrical shader to the skin of an "electric" jawfish - it was just a shader effect added to a permanent Ability.