How to create “Lightning” effect in Max?
guys, i guess he is talking about a lightning effect, not how to set up lights in 3dsmax… you could animate some splines using noise and add a glow to them here is a basic tutorial: http://www.3dm-mc.com/tutorials/flash/ and another one, but this on uses the lightning plugin from digimation (btw, it came with the 3dworld magazine a couple of issues ago): http://perso.wanadoo.fr/3d/tutorials/lightn/lightn.html.