Bio-domes ?

Nice variation, though!

I like both versions, for different reasons…

Markku

Another bit of silliness but fun never the less <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>

Been playing again came up with these, er, ‘Bio-domes ?’

Now I must get back to those tutorials, too much to learn and so little time…..

No info (sorry) but I messed up the mesh (? right term ?) so no info.

I think the question everyone has is: How did you get that cool glow effect? Is there a textured cube in the background that the light is hitting?

Richard

Whoa!

Looks good! Very good metal texture and good
composition!

Markku

Nice bio-domes, and I also would like to know how the glow effect was done. Everything looks great! <!– s:) –><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_e_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" /><!– s:) –>

Les

I don’t think I could repeat it – it was just trial and error ! andnbsp;:-[

Just playing with light, and a bit of after fx in a paint package.

An obvious way to get an engine andquot;glowandquot; such as this:

A translucent texture with a andquot;redandquot; glow.

Here is how you do it:

1) Create a single face using the andquot;CreateFaceandquot; plugin. Make it a child of the andquot;shipandquot; and place it just behind the engines.

2) Scale it to say 5x5x0 (you won’t be able to scale it to this using the right-click scale to since it is broken-but will be fixed soon)

3) Apply this andquot;alpha glowandquot; texture.

4) Invert the face using the andquot;Invertandquot; operation

5) Have it andquot;trackandquot; the animation camera.

This would work good for andquot;visible lightsandquot; and other glow effects. There is a tutorial in this. In fact I started one on this, but I am so pathetic at creating textures that I gave up.

Also, you would want to have some red point lights where the engines are so that the surrounding parts of the model and nearby models would get a andquot;glowandquot;.

Richard

I’m not going to be able to get to this tutorial for a while.

I’ve attached my attempt at creating andquot;glowandquot;. Kinda pathetic, but it does show that it is possible through a bit of trickery.

Actually, I forgot to set the lights on the engines so I didn’t get the red reflection that I wanted.

Richard

I have sent a version of the ship – I really must get into the habbit of backing up work …. andnbsp;:(

Could you send me your ships so I could replicate your scene in 3DC? Or if you have a full scene sans the glow that would be good too.

Richard

Not sure if I follow this -any chance of a demo scene, please ?

I might write that tutorial. I’m still humming and hawing about it.

Richard

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