Lightning Storm Model

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Sorry, I want to re-edit this into a question first and have removed my request first incase its not possible to do. My request was to change the mdl below into a sky model seeing how its spherical and works better if its a square like the default sky models are in the game. But before that I realized the lightning flashes dont work even when I use the sphere model for my game sky. Can sky not have animations and particals?