Custom Lightning Effects?

[Grundy]

do they make such a thing? in DotA the Warlock has an ability called Fatal Bonds it makes a purple lightning effect connect to all the units effected by it. I am making a spell where i want to show a lightning effect connecting from the caster to the target for the full duration of the spell. i know how to do this, just create a lightning effect and use a timer that changes the position and target of the effect every 0.05 seconds or so but the problem im having is the lightning effects in the game are pretty shakey they look like lightning (hence lightning effect) but i want one thats more of a straight line like the ones used in dota i know dota doesnt use any of the ones in this list because none of them are purple. im not looking for dota's effect i want a straight red line connecting the caster to the target.

 

[Uberplayer]

Could this

Lightning - Change color of (Last created lightning effect) to (1.00 1.00 1.00) with 1.00 alpha

help with the lightning effects color? And the base lightning effect would be maybe drain life or so.

Custom Lightning Effects - by CryoniC could help some too.

 

[darkRae]

You can change the color of the Lightning Effect.

EDIT:
Ah, late because I had to test a map

 

[Grundy]

meh i have no art skills i'll just use the healing wave colored red

 

[eXirrah]

How can I change the Lightning Attack color using the Object Editor. Is it really necessary to use triggers?

 

[Squishy]

You should have posted your question in a new post. And I think you will have to use triggers.

 

[Andrewgosu]

There is a nice tutorial at wc3campaigns.net about importing custom lightnings, for those who need custom lightnings.

http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=62725


Old thread...

 

[eXirrah]

Old thread...

I searched the forum for this kind of thread and not duplicate the threads.

Thanks!!!

 

[eXirrah]

So I edit the LightningData.slk and set the Finger of Death RGB to 0,0,0 and I want the Lightning to be black, but seems like the lightning is transparent or something like. It works with Green Lightning. So how to make it black using the default lightning files.

 

[Niki Pan Tape]

how to create fatal bonds ability of warlock in dota

 

[keychup]

you can't make it black. but you can make it gray. extract the lightning texture, recolor it to grey then import it. overwrite the original texture using this texture by using the original texture's path. the reason why you cant make black lightning effects is because if you extract the texture you'll see that the sections where the lightning is not present is in black color. the black is reserved to make a difference between the pigments and open space.