Turns out the answer was... not so simple; you can't apply brightmaps to any effects found in animdefs BUT you can use the same script (with not so clever renaming) and MAKE a 1:1 set of brightmaps.
The Lava took a whole day to realize, I figured if you can't use warp2 on it, you better animate it REALLY well. The Fireblu is a bit of a bonus; it's a simple fade-in-out animation done in script and the brightmaps were made in photoshop (isolating the blue/red and brightening it for that nice eye bleed)
It's kinda a proof of concept, but I REALLY like the end result of that Lava.
Heavy uses of Patching, and Patching with patching, multi-layered animation, animated brightmaps, oh and some Nukage.
This was done entirely in script, and it has a very nice brightmap (also done in script)
(the reason it's called "LAVA")
