Looks as good as an Ion Storm can look. In order to have these triggered in maps you'd need to replace the original Weather Storm SW with the Ion Storm I made and use a clone for the Weather Controller, as you can't trigger any new Ares SWs in maps.
Yes, exactly is what I have done, cloning the Lighting Storm & use that cloned SW in Weather Controller building & in scripted maps call the Lighting Storm SW (in reality Ion Storm SW) in the center of the map and covering all the map with that Ion Storm. Only I haven't edited those maps due to the free time that I'll not have until the 24 of this month (so I don't know if it works in that map Action so in few days I'll know the answer and in my personal opinion better that the original
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I'm not sure if Ares allows more then one instance of a weather storm to exist at the same time as you normally get that error txt string.
Nice video though - shame music can't be disabled when ion storm plays but I suppose you can add a report sound.
No, I tested it yesterday & Ares can't allow multiple instances of Lighting Storm at the same time so or the Allied SW is activated or the Ion Storm is activated but not both at the same time (you will get the message that the lighting/ion storm is in the process).
About music, yes depending of the type of music the Ion Storm theme can be mixed :S & consider too that there is no way to add an ambiental sound while the SW is enabled & I don't know if this is by design but I can't use the original Ion Storm wav file as sound in-game because is too long, 34 seconds (independently of it is a YR Game or Ares limitation, I'll report these problems when I'll have free time).
So to reproduce the Ion Storm theme while the SW is activated I cheated & I cut the theme into sounds of 5-6 seconds, I created 1 entry in soundsmd.ini & I limited the max. reproduction to that sound entry to only 2 instances & each Ion bolt has attached that Ion Storm theme.
Reducing the delay between random bolts it does a nice ambient effect in whole map while the SW is enabled, and in addition, each Ion Storm theme will be unique and in my opinion I thinnk that is better in this way than the original theme
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Edited by FS-21, 18 June 2011 - 03:04 PM.