Need Assistance with game effect please

C r o s b y

Hey all. I've never done 3d modeling before and right now is when I could use it most. I'm sure some of you have heard of the game Team Fortress 2. Well I made a 2D effect for their Unusual hats called Voltage. I submitted to their workshop but only as a 2D effect. I would really like someone to help me in making it or someone teach me. I hope this isn't a lot to ask and I don't think it would take that much time but nonetheless please reply back or if you have Steam add me. Here is the effect I want to have in the game.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=6595

Imagine volts just going off and on and flickering... If you've ever seen Voltorb from Pokemon I don't know what the thing is called but just those streaks of volts go around him. Maybe like static looking! I want to try and come up with something like that for all TF2 hats. Please somebody help! Thanks so much for your time

My Steamid - http://steamcommunity.com/id/icrosbyi/

Seirei

Maybe you should take a look at this enourmus thread:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69164

I'm sure that if someone wants to help you, you'll find him there.

C r o s b y

Thanks for posting that, I posted there too but no one has responded yet Do you think I should PM someone?

Eric Chadwick

I haven't worked with TF2, but there are usually a couple ways to do this kind of effect.

1. Create a bubble of mesh around the hat, and use a transparent shader with a scrolling texture or two. If you distort the UVs right, the texture will warp around nicely as it scrolls.

2. Use a particle effect. Rising/rotating/flickering particles mapped with an electricity texture, maybe with a flipbook animation of electricity.