Im Gregg Daly, Chuck is the one that has the compuserve account and I just use
his machine. Anyway, with the Lightning IPAS you usually assign it to a box
and then you can control the amount of fork each bolt has, the direction, how
long it last and a couple of other features. It works in 3D space so like the
rain ipas you can move through it. When you render the file it will write a
text file to your hard drive, then you can find out when the bolts occure and
how long so that you can animate your light with the bolts. The IPAS is
avalible from Schriber Inst.
If you have anymore questions give me a call and I can talk more about it with
you.
Gregg Daly
3D artist
Grphix Zone
714-8333-3838 ext. 109