How to make lightning

This tutorial tells you how to create the lightning effect I used in "Lost World, the storm". You can download the level to see what I mean...

1) Load or make a simple level with the Lost World tileset. If you don't have the tileset, download it.

2) Make an animation tile with on frame 1; an empty tile, on frame 2; a white tile and on frame 3: an empty tile.

3) In the animation properties, set the animation speed to 7 fps and set the "Frames to wait between two animation cycles" to 30.

These are sort of the standard values, but if you want, you can change them to get faster/slower and more/less frequent lightning.

4) Go to layer 6.

5) Place the lightning animation tile in the upper-left corner of the layer.

6) Go to the layer properties and set width and height to 1. Also, make sure that tile width and tile height are on.

And presto! LIGHTNING. For an even cooler effect you can make a combination of lightning and rain, like in the Lost World level I mentioned earlier.

Other tilesets that can be used for lightning:

Amazon Forest
Christmas pack
Zero

If you know another tileset that can be used for lightning and isn't on this list...let me know


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tutorial written by Ninja Dodo