[Carl Craddock]

couldnt find edit button.

decided to do it the long winded method. i am creating a path with with a stroke and animating the path over the length of the movie. then copying the stroke 3 times with varying size colors to give it glow effect. then applying an actual glow. that way i can track the end of the beam and make it go around the ghosts.
just a shame theres no way to make lightning follow the path. gunna have to do lots of animating start end points along the path to make the lightning stick to it. not looking forward to that lol.

[Carl Craddock]

yeah ive tried with particular. but i cant get the effect i want with it. its able to follow a path but the stream is solid. also the stream is allready made and looking great. its as good as the original in the movies..
i need to be able to manipulate the tip to flow around an object. although i think that misleading, when i say flow around an object i dont mean around the outside i mean in a spiral around it with the parts that go behind masked out to look like a spiral.

i’ll post a couple of images later to reference what i mean