Lightning Bolt Between Two Points

[gamecreator]

I was wondering: how is this lightning effect done in 3D?

 

 

My game is simpler in that it is top-down and so I can create a plane in my 3D program. I was then thinking of pointing it toward the target and then stretching it via SetScale. That's probably easy enough but is there a better way? (I can animate the lightning via changing textures, that's not a problem.)

[YouGroove]

 

 

 

http://news.developer.nvidia.com/2007/07/dx10-lightning-.html

[gamecreator]

Ah, a shader. That makes sense, though I haven't entered that world yet and I'm horrible with math so I think I'll keep it simple. Thanks though!

[Josh]

I would do it exactly as you described in your first post. See Entity::AlignToVector.

[gamecreator]

Thanks. I was going to use Entity::Point but I'm not familiar with AlignToVector yet.