Subject: Re: Undiscovered Country Effect
From: Adrian Onsen - ASNG/F94 <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:37:16 -0800

On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Kent Lidke wrote:

> >>> When the Klingon Bird of Prey fired its weapons while cloaked you could
>  >>> see just the nose of the ship fade in as it was illumated by its weapons
>  >>> fire.
> 
>  >>How about if you chop off the nose of the ship, apply a grid transparency
>  >>to it so that only part of it is visible and the rest fades to complete
>  >>transparency...then apply a 100% dissolve envelope to this object and
>  >>when you want it to become visible, just envelope the dissolve value
>  >>down to 0% or whatever.

	Why not just use a light with falloff, and have it ONLY 
illuminate the part of the ship you want! That way you can control what 
part of the ship gets light, and waht part doesn't. Spot lights can also 
work.

						.. adrian ..
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