Lightning

Ok so I have read, and attempted, many guides on how to make lightning random on a map, but I cannot get any of them to work. Can someone please make a simple guide. (if you can add a picture of the finished event/ events.) Thanks

you could put randomly placed events that have the command thing "flash" and make is so that it has a thing that makes it so that is chaged a varible and some are on when the varible is on and some are off so then you make it so the second and page adds on to the varible and the third takes two away...

Ok like this...

PAGE ONE- Flash, varible +1
Page two condision that only happend when varible is at 1- doesn't flash var+1
page three condions that onlyl happend when varible is at 2- flash var -2

 

Ugh! I am bad at typing my grammer sucks and I am bad at explaiing things...

OK try2

Event typ 1= o
event typ 2= x
event typ 3= t

ox            to               xox
  xo  x  t  x o x  to x to x xo
otoxo  xo to xooxo  x ot

 ox oxt o to xo o x oxo xo
xo txo tox ox o oxo xo xo

ok, now make it so that event 1 has the lighting flash on page 1 and 3 but not 2 event 2 will have it flash on 2 but not 1 and 3 so if the person walks back and frht the same one doesn't go off twice in a row but if the person steps on three more the first one will be a lighitng again.... ill nake a demo...

Ugh i quit!

i know how you feel, here maybe if i link a guide you can expalin it better to me/ make a demo.

http://www.dubealex.com/asylum/index.php?showtopic=4017

I tried my idea and it I couldn't make it work... and I tried this one... you could just put random event around the map with two page first has "flash" and a switch to turn it off... but that would take about 20-30 switchs...

Lol, thanks for trying I apperciate it.

Can anyone else explain to me how?

Note that it goes from 0 to 19 and from 0 to 14 what actually are the X and Y on the map. This will normally work for a 20x15 map, so change these numbers if you have a bigger map. The effect you will see is a lightning every 2 seconds (40 frames), just create more of these events with different frame delay to make it more appealing. (like 37 frames, 51 etc.) The effect should look great. Also you can change to a different animation if you have one that looks better (actually I strongly recommend you do that...)

thanks blizz i will try this when i come home from school. And would this work with just using screen flash? or would that make it look worse?

Sure. But you will see no lightning strike then. I suggest a screen flash of RGB 255, 255, 255 and intensity 70, 100 or 150 (weak, medium or strong). Make it flash for 4 frames. You can also use the SE called Thunderclap for a better effect.