Quake3World

hi, so ive tried to making lighting travel between two set points, ive established how i am going to do and have been able to craete a working trigger which plays the sound but the lightning animation i need is not the one from the DEF file,
Could not find entityDef 'effects/weapons/lightninggun/muzzleflash.fx' for launch projectile target 'target_launchprojectile_1'

I beleive that there is another path i should use, but i cant find it, when i select the projectile to launch option, i can only choose from , sounds, skins, models and gui, the animation i require is not in any of these catagories, can anyone assist in providing the lightning animation path?

oh yer, im using Q4 editor

haven't used the q4 editor, but would guess that the easiest way to achieve the effect of painful lightning travelling between two points would be with a shaded brush and a trigger_hurt (do they still have those in q4?). both of these could be toggled/timed on and off. the lightning itself might be better as a triggered shader rather than being plastered on a func_door.

if the lightning is going to be on continuously, then you would just need a shaded brush and the trigger_hurt. if the lightning doesn't need to hurt anyone, then all you need is a shader.

trigger_projectile is only useful for um, triggering projectiles.

lol, thanks for the info, i figured it out anyway, everything to work the way i want, a nice tip tho, thanks 4 days