Morning Warm Up/better angle

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kirk saavedra

Thanks, Paul,
I andquot;tryandquot; to do as much as posible in 3-DC, but the particle adjustments for visible light drive me nuts. I’ve had a couple of successes [is that how that’s spelled?] but it’s taken hours. More of an accident than a setting you can go back to.
KB
PS- andnbsp;The light and fire were done outside of 3DC.

KB

The original ‘desolate street’ was good but these look even better.

I have been experimenting with visible light but I never get results like these.

Paul

Thanks blaydrnnnr [ are they hiring ]
andnbsp;I just created a face [from the plugins] or just resize a cube. Place it over the scene, add a transparent swirlly texture [ had to expriment ], then animated the texture. It was one of those, andquot;wow-that worked!andquot;

BTW-thats one of my favorite movies, too.

I’ve seen it KB! ( Cable access on my computer at work, so it loaded pretty quick ) I am still trying to figure out how you did that! It looks great. The lighting examples look good. Great way for newbies to learn how to use atmospheres to get great results in there renders.

Paul
I was so amazed at your success I went and tried it again.After waiting minutes to see the white image and then the black image I quit.
Are you using the default settings [other than ray trace particles only] ?
KB

Never mind- I forgot to turn the other lights down. duh..
Thats where you start to have trouble….putting it in a scene with other lights and objects.

KB

On the subject of visible light I was experimenting again this morning and getting nowhere as usual.

Before giving up for the day I tried selecting ‘raytrace particles’ from the ‘mode’ option (via file/properties).

This is the result – nothing special, but showing some promise.

Paul

Hey Paul- that turned out great! I’ve been toying with that myself. I had bars on the windows and wanted the light coming through. You know how it goes- start out looking for bars, making them… the next thing I knew I was working on an archway.
andnbsp;Great job, love the new word too….portcullis.
andnbsp;I’ve got a castle with animated fog rolling past in my other post- it takes so long to load I don’t think anyone looks at it! LOL

andnbsp; KB

KB

This is a rough castle I made recently.

I wanted to get some visible light shining through the portcullis. As you can see this more less works now, plus I have several point lights dotted about.

As far as I can see the most important thing is to make sure all other lights (apart from the spotlight you want the visible light from) are not casting shadows.

Paul