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Subject: Realistic Lightning???

creed2003 opened this issue on Feb 27, 2005 ยท 7 posts
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creed2003 ( ) posted Sun, 27 February 2005 at 10:46 PM ยท edited Sat, 30 November 2024 at 11:42 AM

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Hello Eveyone!!!

Take a look at this picture and see if you think the lightning looks real or not.

Thanks!!!

sittingblue ( ) posted Sun, 27 February 2005 at 10:58 PM

The bolt needs to be light blue, in my opinion, and have a bit more glow.

Charles

wabe ( ) posted Mon, 28 February 2005 at 1:26 AM

The trunk is too thick in my opinion. And yes, the color should be more white-blue than yellow. Maybe the light in the foreground is too bright for a lightning like that. My 2 cents of course!

One day your ship comes in - but you're at the airport.

Llyr ( ) posted Mon, 28 February 2005 at 3:12 AM

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What they said, plus a point light with the lens flare turned off in the middle to light up the surroundings.

Dale B ( ) posted Mon, 28 February 2005 at 5:37 AM

And for the cherry on top, place a sphere primitive at the top of the bolt prop, stretch it and flatten it to suit, and add a cloud material to it and fiddle with the shape and transparency until it matches the sky. And if you want to show the strike points, and have Vue 5, then place a cylinder under each stike point, give it a glowing material in the correct color, then carefully sink it into the ground (or whatever) so that only a tiny sliver is visible; enough to see, but not enough to identify it as a prop.

creed2003 ( ) posted Mon, 28 February 2005 at 8:25 AM

Cool!!! Thanks for all the tips, I'll have to give them a try.

jc ( ) posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 1:07 AM

Cool idea!

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