3DT Lightning Generator – Blender Geometry Node Procedural

🎥 Demo Video

Create electrifying animations instantly with the 3DT Lightning Generator!

Designed for Blender 4.0+, this lightweight, procedural geometry node setup enables you to generate, control, and animate realistic or stylized lightning across curves, surfaces, objects, and dynamic scenes — optimized for both Eevee and Cycles.

🎯 Key Features

Lightning Along Curves and Objects
Easily wrap lightning around any curve or animate lightning connecting objects dynamically in real-time.

Multiple Lightning Modes
Switch between target lightning (object-to-object strikes) and surface lightning (surrounding objects with electrical effects).

Full Procedural Control
Adjust lightning bend, noise, randomness, thickness, density, animation speed, and material properties at any time.

Emitter and Receiver Setup
Create complex lightning strikes with multiple emitters and receivers for dynamic particle effects and animations.

Cycles and Eevee Compatibility
Comes with both Eevee-optimized and Cycles-optimized lightning materials, including built-in compositor support for glow effects.

🔥 Why You'll Love It

Instant Dynamic Effects
Easily add animated lightning bolts, power surges, cloud discharges, electrified text, and magic effects to your Blender scenes.

Flexible Animation Support
Keyframe movement, strike intervals, noise shifts, or animate density and bend parameters effortlessly.

Perfect for Games, VFX, and Cinematics
Whether it's magical spells, realistic electrical surges, or stylized ghostbuster beams — it's all possible.

Optimized for Real-Time Workflows
Lightweight node groups ensure smooth viewport editing even with complex lightning systems.

📦 What's Included

- 1x Blender .blend file with Lightning Generator Geometry Node setups

- Lightning along curve system

- Lightning emitter/receiver system for dynamic object linking

- Surface lightning wrap-around effects

- Cycles and Eevee compatible lightning materials with prebuilt compositor setup

⚙️ Requirements

- Blender 4.0 or newer with lifetime updates

- From noob to pro — watch the 10 minute video to have everything up and running in no time

🚀 Installation Instructions

Method 1 – Add to Asset Library

1. Download and unzip the product folder.
   
   
2. Open Blender → Edit → Preferences → File Paths → Asset Libraries → click the "+" button.
   
3. Navigate to the extracted folder and add it.
   
   
4. Open the Asset Browser and drag the Lightning Generator into your scenes.
   
   

Method 2 – Manual Append

1. Open your Blender project.
   
2. Go to File → Append → Locate the .blend file → Import the Geometry Node group.
   
   

Method 3 – Copy and Paste Between Projects

1. Open the project containing the Lightning Generator setup.
   
2. Select the Geometry Node group.
   
3. Press Ctrl+C to copy.
   
4. Open another Blender project and press Ctrl+V to paste it directly into your scene.

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