64 replies to this topic

[sporting1986]

maybe the weather has something to do with the maps,i think the lightnings bolts do not appear in all maps,i think in some maps only rain appear,but it is just a tought

[Puppeteer]

This is intriguing, I will take a look!

[sporting1986]

thank you my friend,all the help is needed

[Puppeteer]

Well the relevant parts in weather.ini , environment.ini & fxlist.ini are all identical. Even though each has:

WeatherData CLOUDY
	HasLightning = No; Lightning for rain only. Bug #9644
End

I wonder what bug #9644 is...
The lightning appears to function in "CloudEffect" only. Makes sense, but where else is this defined and/or used? Hmm...
If you could find out which maps have rain & lightning in the campaign then that would be uself.

[Ridder Geel]

Those ini's were mostley identical to the ones in BFME 1 (i posted that a few 'posts' ago...)

the rain and lightning are caused by the Freezing Rain (or whatever it is called) from isengard

Edited by Ridder Geel, 07 November 2008 - 07:31 PM.

[sporting1986]

well it looks that this is impossible,i´m going to acept the speel as it is

[Puppeteer]

Don't give up yet!

the rain and lightning are caused by the Freezing Rain (or whatever it is called) from isengard

No shit sherlock...

[sporting1986]

it is the first time somethink like this comes up?was i the first one in thinking about this?man if someone already have figured it out it could help us a lottttt

Edited by sporting1986, 07 November 2008 - 10:28 PM.

[Lurtzy]

Don't give up yet!

the rain and lightning are caused by the Freezing Rain (or whatever it is called) from isengard

No shit sherlock...

How nice

[sporting1986]

man so nothing new??i´ve been thinking,for the lightnings to appear there must be a model or something??maybe in the textures of the rise of the witch king there are no textures for that

Edited by sporting1986, 09 November 2008 - 03:31 AM.

[Puppeteer]

No it wouldn't be a model, would be too hard to do it that way. It'd appear static. It's an FX, in the fxparticlesystem there are multiple ones for lightning but it's where they're connected and used in the rain which is the hard bit to find...

[sporting1986]

well i give up there is no way i,so long

[Puppeteer]

When you say lightning, did the screen temporarily flash white or did you see an actual bolt?

[sporting1986]

it flash but do the sound of a lightning bolt,really cool

[Rob38]

When you say lightning, did the screen temporarily flash white or did you see an actual bolt?

I was also talking about the white flash, just like in BFME1. I believe there were no bolts that actually hit the ground, nor am I really interested in that. I'm assuming that a fx can be created that intimates the white flash in BFME1? I just find it odd that the files in BFME1 & 2 are nearly identical... what in the world is stopping the white flashes from appearing in BFME2?

[sporting1986]

i think this is the most interesting question and it is a challenge for the most experienced codders of this game,because even them have no solution for this,but there must be something we can do that ea is really crazy

[Ridder Geel]

Maybe someone could send EA an e-mail about this?
I tried increasing LightningChance in Environment.ini with no success...

[sporting1986]

yeah but EA don´t care,sending or not sending them an email is the same

[Puppeteer]

Oooooh! I know! Pasidon sent me some scripts doing this, so I'll test them and get back to you. I thought you were talking of the bolt

[sporting1986]

man pleaseee workkkkkkkkkkk lol