# Lighting Effect? Possible?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 11, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265 "2003-02-11T00:49:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Casenote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Casenote](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Casenote)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265/1 "2003-02-11T00:49:27Z")

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Hey guys and gals,

Just wondering if there is anyway that I could make a lightning (mortar) effect on a 700px by 200px area of my website…kind of in the background…at the brightest part of the flash I want a sound played…

I would like the lightning to be going on simulataneously with everything on the site in the back ground and I would like it to be lighting and fading in several different areas at once.

What I did was divide the area into six not square forms

here is the background image that I am speaking of…I would like mortars flashes to be going off on different parts of the beach/sky line…with a sound effect that I already have…

![](http://www.aesthetic-design.com/background.jpg)

Should I divide it into 6 sections of non-square solid white shapes and change their alpha, while at the highest alpha setting play a sound? if so is there a way I could have it randomand looping in the background and do i have to make them graphic items to change their alpha?

![](http://www.aesthetic-design.com/background2.jpg)

If anyone could help me out…or steer me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks

Case

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265/2 "2003-02-11T01:33:02Z")

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Yeah ill do it for you in PhotoShop be right back

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265/3 "2003-02-11T01:36:43Z")

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This is as good as i can get it…  
Unless Electron geek can use is Powers other than that i hope its good.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265/4 "2003-02-11T01:38:10Z")

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I would just use multiple masks in Flash for this. Also, don’t have hard lines to divide the areas, as light has no hard edges. You might be better off using a gradient.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-effect-possible/13265/5 "2003-02-11T03:17:47Z")

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could you go into a little detail on that…since I am very new…I have no clue?

Bulldog…i want it to be a animated lightning and thunder effect

Case