Lightweight, and highly customisable Lightning Effects for use in Roblox. Can be made into all sorts of special effects. Has been previously used within the popular game elemental battlegrounds.
Features:
Layered, moving Perlin noise with a variety of animation properties
Uniform disk-point picking for even distribution of control points
Can go along a Bezier curve rather than just straight-lines (i.e. Similar to how rblx beams curve)
Varying thickness, length, and, transparency
Can use ColorSequences
Lightning “Sparks” and “Explosion” sub-modules
Can smoothly travel as a projectile trying to reach a point with a variety of kinetic properties
Uses a PartCache for performance (v1.1)
Showcase
Usage
v1.1:
Don’t attempt to use Sparks or Explosion with the latest version. I’m working on a refactor for these that work with the latest version and will be bundled into version 2. Version 3 is likely to be similar but will instead use a cache for mesh-skinning.
Deprecated old version(s):
There are 2 versions. A version which uses Parts which looks better but lags more and another version which uses ImageHandleAdornments to run much faster (inspired by this also great module. )
You can also check it out here on GitHub which also lists all API.
Recommend adding a bloom effect to game.Lighting whilst lowering threshold and changing intensity
Recommend setting Enabled = false when far away from.
Yeah, I mentioned it as it inspired the use of ImageHandleAdornments.
I wanted to have a more flexible version that could do smoother-looking animations with varying thickness as well as a more jittery lightning effect. That + all of the kinetic features and being able to curve similarly to beams.
This looks amazing! I’ll be using it in my game I am creating now, thanks for sharing!
Edit: Question, I am using the lightning explosion when you click on the map but I can only fire it from the client which means it only shows the explosion for the player deploying it, when I tried to fire on the server, it doesn’t show at all and when I check the server side the explosion are just sitting where they were deployed all glitchy.
Anyway I can get it so that everyone sees the explosion?
This is only a client-sided module as the server stuff shouldn’t be too difficult to setup from there. You’ll have to fire a remote event which relays the information of create lightning explosion at position x to all clients on the server so that it can create the effect on all those clients.
Also, for everyone currently using this module, I’m working on a far-better looking and more performant version (v2) which uses mesh skinning with part pooling options so that this can be used in more quantity as well as have more quality.
I was just about to suggest using mesh skinning and a part cache. Creating large amount of parts is very tedious, I had to setup a part cache for certain guns that had busted fire rates in my game to prevent the drop in frames.
Edit: excited to see v2 and the performance boosts!
