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From: Joe Angell <jangell@risd.edu>
Subject: Re: One Word - NEON!
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> Is there and *easy* or HARD way to make convincable looking neon
> in LW?
>
Well, there is that Glow button in 4.0... DOH! you have an Amiga, don't
you :)
Actually, Mark Thompson's In.Focus CD mentions how to do this with both
the Glow attribute and without.
Possible option: (also based on snippets of a LWPro article I remember I
think by Mark Thompson...)
Make your text, or object, or whatever. Put it in the BG layer. Create
either a series of points and convert it into a spline, or use the Sketch
tool to connect make the spline. It should connect each letter together
like real Neon lights.
Go to a 3rd layer, and make a disc. Rail Extrude the disc along the
spline you made, and give it a surface name of "NEON-INNER" Assuming you
made the disc the right size, it looks like the letter are made up of a
single tube.
Go to the 4th layer, and make a disc a little bigger than the 1st one,
and Rail Extrude it along the same spline. Surface it with "NEON-GLOW"
(you can skip this whole step with LW4.0, and just use the Glow button).
Save both of these layers as the same object, NeonText.
For surfacing, try making the Inner surface 100% luminous, and the Glow
surface about 50% transparent. If you want, you can make more "glow"
tubes, making each Glow tube more transparent as it gets further from the
center.
Hope this helps...
-- Joe
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