Arc Effects and sparks but as a track object

[jamal17]

i think they should have the sparks that the subway 3rd rails make but it should be use as a track object. i have gmax but i don't really know how to use it, the idea is like this: if the train run past the spark object the bogey will make a blue spark if you set it for the right or left side. the same way that the signals and track objects are meant for the trains for when they run by is the same way that sparks would work. when i get a hang of GMAX im going to create this

 

[motorbreath]

I think then you would have to install hundreds of them along the track. I think a more feasible alternative would be to have the sparks as an added effect of the loco, similar to smoke effects. What you are describing would also be set off by every single car behind the loco.

 

[cascaderailroad]

Seems like alot of detail...

The quicker, inexpensive, and less time consuming alternative...You could always hold a dead BIC butane lighter out at arms length, and quickly flick and rotate the flint spark wheel in front of the PC screen, and make your own, home made, schnazzy sound effects by mouth, moving your lips, akin to: Bzzzzzggtt Gzzzzzggtt...
Or you could simply, gently rub your eyelids with you knuckles, making an illusion of a blue electric sparks. :hehe:

They said to the Wright Brothers, that the airplane would never ever fly...and Bill Gates crew once procliamed that even the most savy of IBM home computer terminal owners, would never need more than 12,000 bytes of memory.