Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Laser Beam/Magic Effects Animation in Poser 5

Adenosine opened this issue on Mar 28, 2003 ยท 6 posts


_dodger posted Tue, 01 April 2003 at 1:10 AM

Yup yup. Download one of my blasters that comes with a blast effect and simply either position it and move it, or even position and scale it. For instance, you could start it out scaled to nothing with the 'beginning' of the prop at the laser gun's barrel, then increase the size until it reaches the target and then decrease it whilst moving it along its own path until it is fully collapsed at the target for a cool Trek type effect. For the Star Wars type blasts, shrink the prop to 0 length, then increase it quickly to full length coming out of the barrel, then move the blast prop along it's path until it hits the target and collapse it again (or just send it right through). On a similar note, my Dungeon Lighting Kit I (II and III will be soon, though my computer is broken right now -- I'm on someone else's) has animatable and posable flames with multitudes of flicker morphs. If you combine this with P5's ability to use an animated texture map and use an actual animation of flames you can get really impressive realism.