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From: fmartins@esoterica.pt (Fernando Martins)
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Subject: Lasers with Lens Flares
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Hi to all!
Yesterday I thought about using the technique described in Mojo's 'Simple
Space stuff - Cool tricks from Babylon 5' to simulate lasers beams. Try to
find LightwavePro Sep94 (I guess).
OK, I added a nullobject to a ship, I added a row of 4 lights neasr each other
ans parented these to the nullobject. Now, when I move the nullobjects in the
Z axis, the lights are 'fired' from the ship in the direction the ship is
aiming. Everything is fine by now...
The tricky part is to make those lens flares look like a laser beam... I did
turn motion blur on and I did a lot of experiments with the flare's intensity
and dissolve. Actually, I spend MORE time experimenting with the #$%@@ flares
than to set up the rest of the scene (with asteroids, nebulas, stars, 3
ships...)
I can't get the damn thing right! As someone tried this technique and achieved
good results?! Can anyone give me the values you used for the flares
envelopes?!
I think I will be back to my tube/transparent-tube thingy to simulate my