Guide to the blackout sky effect

[sothe4963]

Okay so everyone's been wanting to know how to do it, so I decided to tell. What is it you ask though? It is the effect on black out that allows you to spell stuff out in different colors like this:

Ok so here what you do.
1. Go onto blackout in forge.
2. Look up above the air lift to where the smokes coming out, now hold stairs up above that building and infront of the smoke, then save and end to make it hover.
3. Go back in the game then put bridges across the stairs so you have more room to write, and spawn the effect juicy.
4. Start to write out what ever you want with weapons, but remember it has to be backwards.
5. Once you have it spelled out just the way you want save, then delete the bridges and stairs, so the weapons alone will be hovering. NO NOT DELETE THE BRIDGES AND STAIRS THEN SAVE, BECAUSE IF YOU DO YOUR WEAPONS WILL JUST FALL.
6. Go stand on the br tower and shoot and weapon across the map towards sniper tower area. for different color shot different colored weapons, for green a fuel rod gun or plasma pistol(which also makes purple?), plasma riffle for blue, laser for red you get the idea.
7. Now go into theater. Look through the weapons blast towards the weapons hovering in front of the smoke, if done right just the weapons show glow that color.

And just so people won't ask me where these places are i decided to post a pic with where they are.

Red=The smoke
Yellow=Where to put the stairs
Blue=Where to stand while shooting
Green=Which direction to shoot

Now hopefully with a bit of practice you can be making awesome screen shots like this:


...your welcome lol

[Black Theorem]

This is a very good, much more advanced way to do the Blackout Sig effect! Thank you very much, sothe, we really appreciate it!

And that Fail one is just too good.

[X taco king X]

Originally Posted by Black Theorem

This is a very good, much more advanced way to do the Blackout Sig effect! Thank you very much, sothe, we really appreciate it!

And that Fail one is just too good.

Yea, BLack would know! HE helft me and a buddy out with 3 different effects to make names.

It looks great this is way better than the ones you do in the other sky area.

[Digitaldrug]

Great guide man, thank you for sharing.

Heres what i made with it.


My only problem with it is that the smoke can be really thin at some places so some of the screen shots u take get blended in with the back ground. Thats easily fixable.

Once again, great tut 5/5

[jhood]

can anyone post the forge map for this because im not really good in forge

[DC]

Oh good golly i think i jizzed my self.

Anyways, i love the fail one at the end. Very.....Retro.

Much better than the old way.

[LILhustlin77]

thanks that helps a lot

[DisturbedShifty]

So why does the letter need to be backwards if you are looking through the blast at the lettering?

[Show7yme]

very nice new take on the blackout sky names

[Black Theorem]

Originally Posted by DisturbedShifty

So why does the letter need to be backwards if you are looking through the blast at the lettering?

Youre making the letters top-down, but you will see these letters from under the letters, through the filters and explosions.