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- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1988 03:46:12 -0000
- From: Stephen Thornber <SThornber@STEVE1.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: [IML] Quest: Laser Problems
-
- Hi guys.
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- Can anyone help me.? I am trying to create a laser in Imagine 5.0
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- (I've tried the two tubes+fog trick, but it doesn't look right)
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- What I want is a sort of ribbon laser (If you know what I mean.)
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- example:-
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- ------------------------|
- |
- ++++++++++++++++++++++++| Side View
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- ++++++++++++++++++++++++| Top View
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- |
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- | Front View
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- Thats what I want it like, but intense in the centre and dull,
- possibly tranparent on the edges.
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- please help guys..... BTW I have Essence 1 and 2.
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- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 00:08:47 -0500
- From: Jason Miller <jason@3DILLUSION.COM>
-
- What do you think of
- http://jason.3dillusion.com/images/works/saber.jpg ?
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- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:06:19 +0100
- From: Bart Janssens <bartj@CLUB.INNET.BE>
-
- Well, you should be able to make a vertical gradient in a paint package, black
- in the middle and gradually going to white on the top and bottom. Then use
- that map as a transparency map, set the object colour to anything you desire
- and make it a bright object.
-
- regards,
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- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:06:30 +0000
- From: George Cole <George@COLE.CLARA.NET>
-
- Okay. This sounds fairly like one of the many problems I had when making
- a light saber and probably looks pretty similar. Is the center slightly
- dull, taking on the colour of the outer glow instead of being white?
- see http://home.clara.net/cole/mine2.jpg for an example of this
- This is because your outer tube (the fog object I presume) is colouring
- it. First of all to get the glow (if that is what you want) to have
- transparent or dull edges: in the attributes requester add Ghost
- texture. This will make the edges blend off to transparency, play with
- the settings to get the right effect. Then select the inner tube and add
- Fakely texture to and set it to colour. Set the inner colour to a very
- bright nearly white colour, perhaps with a hint of the colour of you
- laser. Set the edge colour to appoximately the colour of your outer
- glow. Play with the other number to say where the inner colour starts
- blending off to the outer colour. Now copy and paste the inner tube.
- Pick this object and go into transformations requester. Scale it by
- 1.001 in every axis. Now go into the attribues requester for this object
- and make it a fog object, any fog length. This will cancel out the outer
- fog glow where the inner tube is and so the colours will not be dulled
- by the glow. You have to scale it up by 1.001 as if you don't it won't
- cut out the other fog object for some reason.
- If you want your object to look more like Jason's laser beam then all
- you need is one tube object and it's easier to control but if you need
- the glow to be a separate object then my method should produce some good
- results.
- http://home.clara.net/cole/mine3.jpg is what my lightsaber currently
- looks like but you can just change the settings to get it to look more
- like a laber beam. Notice the white center caused by using the extra
- tube to cut out the outer fog.
- Hope this helps,
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