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Hi, thanks for your comments on my latest work - "Captured Light". :-) Drawbridgep, you asked how I did that effect of the light beams. Here I add a screenshot where everything is explained. It is so SIMPLE you will laugh about it. :) Maximum Ray depht is set to 2 RPP. You can increase that, but then the top parts of the tubes will lose the darkness. But I liked how they look. Add more RPPs and they will look like cristal/ diamond again. I hope this image explains all you wanted to know. Feel free to ask if something is unclear. Greets, Jimi

Image. :-)

Seems that's no need for this...?

No .... I looked at it with great interest, however, I didn't get what you meant by two spheres two cylinders and a box. Also, when you said a light was in each "tube" I assume you meant that you had a light in the top sphere of each boolean tube?? Also, I'm still not sure that I understand how this caused the light to do what it did. In other words, the whole thing is still unclear to me. But, it's a cool image.

Well, the effect is to me unclear, too. ;-) But it works. About the primitives: Take two cylinders, one positive, one negative. Make the negative one a bit smaller than the positive one. Boolean them together. You get a hollow cylinder. Take two spheres and do the same again. You get a hollow sphere. Make the booleaned group positive, add a negative cube which deletes the lower half of the booleaned sphere. So you get a half, hollow sphere. Put the sphere and the cylinder together and you get something like a "test tube". Place it onto the ground, duplicate it as often you like and put light in it like shown above. Apply the mentioned settings and voil light beams. Don't ask me "why" it works. I told you "how" you can do it. ;-)) J.

I think it's one of those effects that you say "That will never work" until you try it and go "Wow! How weird is that". Basically, once I get a minute, I'll give it a go. Still not sure why, even if I now know how.