Originally posted by SMIFFGIG:

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This tutorial is rated 2 star **

Important note
Due to certain issues twinkling tiberium can only be used for single player mods/maps -See Known Issues

Tiberium Twinkle (Single Player Only) **
As minor as it maybe, simple effects like Tiberium twinkle add great eyecandy to any game, as seen in RA2 and RA1
For some reason this effect was excluded from TS by default by like many other things the leftover animations are still left in the conquer.mix from RA1

Step 1
Firstly convert the TWNK1 TWNK2 and TWNK3 .shp's to the anim.pal.

Step 2
Then add them to the animations list in the rules.ini e.g.


Step 3
Assign the animation to the tiberium e.g.



I assigned TWNK2 to TIB02, TWNK3 to TIB03, TWNK1 to TIB04 etc

Step 4
Now we need to add the code for these animations to the art.ini
With some playing around with the loop delays and what not I came up with this code for best effect



Known Issues!
Heres the catch people, because there are so many animations taking place constantly, TS doesnt seem to be able to handle syncronization in multiplayer games and a re-connection error will happen around 2mins into the game.

Also your sync log will look mainly like this



Final Note
Experiment, I played around with this a long time ago and there maybe work arounds... maybe try adding the anim to only 3 or 1 types of tiberium and/or add longer loopdelays

Thats all for now and I hope someone will find this tutorial intruiging if nothing else