"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> I'm trying to do a quick and dirty simulation of lightning flashes with
> momentarily appearing point light_sources in a scene,

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> Has anyone worked with this type of thing before?
> Helpful suggestions?

I did a scene with lightning flashes, a few years ago. I wanted the flashes to
appear at the correct place in the animation. So they were not random. I did
find that single flash in one frame was singularly unimpressive. So I made each
flash consist of several lit frames followed by a gap then several more.

As for trying to get rand and clock to match up. Best of luck there. ;-)

The variable final_frame is useful in these occasions to give you a way of
working out where in the animation your flashes will be.

Stephen

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