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From: Nigel Patrick Lim <nigel@aries.interspace.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Q: Storb light
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David Warner wrote:
>
> Chiming in kinda late on this, but I've done a number of "dome light" or
> flashing LED effects that just used a lens flare inside of a transparent
> or partially dissolved light-glass object...the "trick" is to turn on Fade
> Behind Objects, but bump up the flare intensity a LOT to make it shine
> through the light-glass object. This will make the flare fade out
> completely when it is behind a solid object (like a steel beam).
This works quite well because the flare will still show through a transparent object.
I did something similar a while back but I don't think the light source illuminated
surrounding objects infront of the glass. Can anyone confirm this?