Lightning or Thunderbolts

[Hellop 0]

I joined some mission and I saw lightning during a storm. Also, there are references to lightning in the OFP pages on the wiki. Is it possible to create lightning in Arma?

References:

This page references two "thunderbolt" classnames for ofp:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki....laneous

This page gives an example to create a thunderbolt:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ParticleArray

Any ideas? Maybe the "SPARKSEFFECT" particle effect?

[sakura_chan 9]

lightning is included in default Arma.

[Hellop 0]

Hi Sakura-chan, thanks for the reply. I assume you mean that there are lightning strikes when it rains. But, do you know how to make them using a particle effect?

-Thanks

[max power 21]

You should clarify what you mean by particles. Do you mean you want to use the particle simulation to make a lightning strike? Do you want to construct the physical bolt out of like smoke particles or custom particles or something? Or do you want to make a lightning strike effect? Or do you want to simply know the command or method for telling ArmA to create a lightning bolt weather effect, as it appears when it rains?

So far it sounds like you want to make a lightning bolt out of particle effects. Perhaps if you went into more detail about your intentions, more solutions would come to mind.