[Singh]

I've been trying to make a weapon using the .tbls and some of the textures available with vanilla fs2 that looks similar to a repeating lightning bolt of sorts, but so far every attempt I've made ends up in failiure - the beam either is extremely distorted with the textures showing up in the wrong direction, and sometimes not at all.

In other words: I give up. I need help! Someone, please, help me!

[Axem]

You just want one of the beam textures to move along the whole beam?

If so...

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$Section:
+Width: 1
+Texture: [beam_1]
+RGBA Inner: 0 255 0 200
+RGBA Outer: 0 128 0 50
+Flicker: 0.1
+Zadd: 0.4
+Tile Factor: 10.0, 2
+Translation: 1.0
$Section:
+Width: 2
+Texture: [beam_2]
+RGBA Inner: 0 255 000 96
+RGBA Outer: 0 125 0 20
+Flicker: 0.8
+Zadd: 0.2
+Tile Factor: 10.0, 2
+Translation: -1.0
$Section:
+Width: 3
+Texture: [beam_3]
+RGBA Inner: 96 255 96 50
+RGBA Outer: 48 128 48 5
+Flicker: 0.0
+Zadd: 0.0
+Tile Factor: 100.0, 2
+Translation: -10.0

I just took this from one of Nukemod's beams. I think they do what you are thinking of. I'm not really sure how they work, all I know is that they do work (hopefully), so that might be something to go on.

[FireCrack]

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