Stasis Trap

How does one create the stasis trap's lightning animation effect? Im using 3ds Max 5.2 with art tools of course. (A short tutorial or link to a tutorial would be great)

Thanks.

you mean things like healing wave and chaing lightning too? i really dunno, it's probably best to just reskin the lightning... it's easier, or do you need it in animations of a unit?

I need to make the lightning effect in between to parts of my Podracer model. I tried importin it into Max, but alas, no luck.