Procedural lightning bolts?

[animator75]

Hi all!

I have hit the wall on this one.. I need to create lightning bolts between to moving objects. Digimation once had a plugin called Thor (I think) that did just this, but its only for max 9 to 2008. Any ideas how to create this effect?

Thanks!

[Da_elf]

i think bercon has one

[animator75]

Thank you!
The script looks very nice but it does not have support for moving the source and target around. I am trying to build my own lightning rig, so far I have two different ways I am looking into, Building the bolts with geometry or doing it with p-flow.

[Da_elf]

i agree the digimation one was pretty sweet.

[joconnell]

You could do a lot of it with spline ik rigs and some animated nulls?

[animator75]

Thanks! I will look into that.

[flino2004]

I was wondering if ivy generator could work for that effect( of course without leaves)

[Da_elf]

wouldnt be animatable though

[flino2004]

why not? you can animate the ivy growing... I'm talking about the version for max

[joconnell]

You can't animate the noise on it easily though - the branching is great though.

[Da_elf]

a: the noise. b: the locations. suppose you wanted lightning to arc between two objects that were moving