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I believe SCHRIEBER Instruments has such a routine, in fact they are running a 1/2 price special on it until the end of May, it looks like it comes with 5 other cool routines. 1-800-252-1024 have Fun Paul Boyd – Phoenix,AZ

>> Is there an easy way to create a thunderstorm effect including the lightning… << The lightning is a piece of cake with Schreibers FX package which is on sale BTW. The thunderstorm is a little bit more complex depending on what kind of an effect you're going for. There's no IPAS to date for this. You could create billowing clouds and morph between them, just depends on how much time you want to spend to get the look you want. John

Michael A quick and dirty way to make lighting: ..In a paint package, Altamira Composer is great for this, paint a set of lightening forks. ..Cut or float the forks, and paste them with several levels of blurring behind the original. ..Make a lightening material with self-illumination, and decal map it to a flat plane. ..Morph or scale the flat plane in the animation and increase the ambient light at each strike to produce the flash. This can be done in 15 minutes and is very controllable. TedB -Ted Boardman !^NavFont01F0007MGHHH9DE5DF

Michael, There is an effects paint program called WinImages FX by Black Belt Systems. The program is supported in the Animation Vendor A forum (GO ANVENA). Mark