How to Customise Lightning Effects

[Paillan]

If you use GUI, you will have to modify the TriggerData.txt. In jass you can just input the id you have added to the slk into the AddLightning/AddLightningEx function.

Yes, but I searched the whole TriggerData like 3 times now and can't seem to find the place for this...
Custom script could do the same effect, right?, using the same create lightning, but in JASS. The problem is I suck at JASS.

 

[WaterKnight]

Yes, but I searched the whole TriggerData like 3 times now and can't seem to find the place for this...

// Lightning Types
LightningTypeCLPB=1,lightningtype,`CLPB`,WESTRING_LIGHTNINGTYPE_CLPB
...

Custom script could do the same effect, right?, using the same create lightning, but in JASS.

Sure.

 

[Paillan]

Ohh so it was in lightning types, thank you!
I still can't find it :'u I guess I am really terrible at search. Is it in triggerData anyway?

 

[Almia]

Can somebody upload the LightningData.slk?

 

[Paillan]

Can somebody upload the LightningData.slk?

why?

btw, necropost?

 

[Ardenian]

Tutorials and resources are excluded from the necropost rule, afaik.

Almia, you can extract it yourself with the http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/war3-model-editor-62876/ from
Splats\LightningData.slk in the war3.mpq

 

[Paillan]

Tutorials and resources are excluded from the necropost rule, afaik.

Almia, you can extract it yourself with the http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/tools-560/war3-model-editor-62876/ from
Splats\LightningData.slk in the war3.mpq

oh okay. Apparently I need to read the rules again.

 

[Kyrbi0]

This was a very simple & helpful tutorial that succinctly described the editing method with lots of great pictures & a good example (and at just the right time; I was just looking for this!).

However, despite all this I have failed to get it to work. I have included the .slk I was working off of (created a bunch of different custom ones to test several textures out; none of the ones I tested (SEWR, STR0, STR4) worked. (I would attach the map but it's my Contest map so that's kinda un-kosher : P).

Basically, upon attacking the game would freeze & give some kind of error like "the code at 00x0000CC could not be 'read'." I did not have 0 duration nor (AFAIK) were any of my chosen textures not dimensioned in multiples of 2.

Thoughts?

 

[WaterKnight]

The slk header is faulty. Replace the first line by

ID;PWXL;N;E
B;X14;Y24;D0

and it works.

 

[Kyrbi0]

You are a wizard. How did that work? How did I mess it up in the first place? And how did you find out? Criminy, thanks.

Now that it works, I begin the wonderful process of "change-test-repeat" to find a set of values & a texture that actually look good. : )

 

[WaterKnight]

It depends on the editor you use obviously. The slk format is not a Blizzard-invention and features a couple of options like cell formating but for the data representation Wc3 reads, few is needed. I am not too versed with the general format myself but thought it could at least stand a max column/row declaration like all the other wc3 slks have.

 

[Kyrbi0]

It depends on the editor you use obviously. The slk format is not a Blizzard-invention and features a couple of options like cell formating but for the data representation Wc3 reads, few is needed. I am not too versed with the general format myself but thought it could at least stand a max column/row declaration like all the other wc3 slks have.

Hm. Well you guessed right, either way; it works.

... Sorta. Attached is a set of screenshots I made in-game showing how they all appear stark white; I can't imagine it has to do with the color settings (RGB

One final round of testing determined the tiniest of errors can set these babies off... I had included the "\" next to "Textures" in the "Dir" line of my Lightning.slk, and lo & behold, it couldn't read that. Apparently that's assumed. Having fixed that, everything works great! Thanks again for your help.

By the way, to actually contribute to this thread, I leave with you a comment that, if possible describes the fields in better detail than Softmints did (or at least, mostly, and with bullets): Importing Custom Lightning

 

[Rykon-V73]

This was one effective tutorial and helped me import my lightning successfully.