Random Doodad animation help

I am working on a cinimatic, "Matrix Arena" and I was trying to make a trigger that made random lighting apper in a region, however I only found a way to make the lightning doodads animated all at once, so then I made the lightning into a unit, however it had a shadow and when ever it was selected it would just flash its selection box and not play the animation anyone know how I could get this to workemote_confused

Try creating a SPFX using the file path for the lightning.

If you're gonna make the lightning a unit then try basing it off the wisp (i think, maybe the shade?). It doesn't have a shadow.

Ooorrrrr.. you could always first place them where you want em but set their animation to death or something so you cant see them... but then once you need it... put a diff animation on...

it works w/ fire... i made one map that was absolutly normal but had the fire w/ its death animation so it didnt show.. but when i wanted a burning city.. i just turned it back on..:D hope it helps

I know this, but I have like 20 dead lightning bolts and I only want two or three to randomly turn on out of the origanal 20, this will happen alot so I dont want people saying, "Hey wasn't there Lightning in that same spot just a second ago?"

Well, you can open up IC and see how I did it, but basically I picked a random point in the region, created a special effect of Lightning at that point, saved to variable, waited, deleted effect. I did that on periodic triggers (5 of them) to make lightning seem to be just hammering the area lol.

-Insaniteus-

You can edit the unit to get rid of the shadow... Just put a 0 next to shadow used.

It wouldn't be the first time I've looked to see how you did something, but I get the idea, lol I forgot you did that or I wouldn't have even posted this till I had tryed, thx :ggani: