is it possible to do lightning effects in ddraw? i think i've seen it in razor1911 demos if i'm not mistaken,but it could've been d3d? anyways please look @ the following example first to allow me 2 explain...

http://www.scene.co.za/scene_cracktro_beta2.zip

there is a fireball moving in a horizontal 8 to the top left,now this sprite,must now throw a lightning effect to each side,of a specific color(perhaps alpha blending?).also,if u can also tell me how 2 colorize a sprite,and rotate/scale it in delphiX,it would be most appreciated.

also,say we have a window like the following,with 2 blocks inside

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| | x | |
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ok,say we are gonna do a star effect in the outer block,but we dont want to do anything in the inner X block,how can that be accomplished? can it work like lets say a layer effect?

and now,the bottom text part is a little korny,what i've done,is i've created a bmp of 10000x60 pixels,wif the text inside,which comes to about 1.5mb of junk.is'nt there a easier way of doing this? perhaps a 300x300px image wif fonts inside that can be used?

thanx in forward for which info can be given
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