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jeffg Senior Member Offline Posts: 472	Electricity Aug 23^rd, 2009, 7:27pm Was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to create an electricity type effect? I'd like to take a line for example and then electrify it. I'd also like to take a image and then surround it with such an effect. Any ideas?

ben_hem

Re: Electricity
Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2009, 8:51pm

The lightning bolts in Wayfarer are made by dividing a line into a number of sub-lines (lerp does fine)...every point but the beginning and end is offset by a random amount to create the zigzag, and it's re-scrambled each frame to make it look "live." Each node also has a chance to sprout small sub-forks.
And for a glowing effect, each line is composed of a wide line that's semi-transparent, and a thinner opaque line on top.
--Ben

Cedric

Re: Electricity
Reply #2 - Aug 24^th, 2009, 1:12am

I dont know what you ve got in mind. And depending on if you need it to be dynamic or just for a Headline etc i would think about creating some typo and save it as transparent png. there are a lot of Electricity or Lightning Text Effect tutorials available for Photoshop. Maybe you can save them in different states with different values to get an animation... or combine it with a text in processing and just overlay a lightning effekt

Like i said i dont know what your goal is, but sometimes it might be easier not to do everything with coding...

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