Forum: Bryce

Subject: Light Rays

susanmoses opened this issue on Jul 26, 2004 · 8 posts

susanmoses posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 4:41 PM

I've seen some pretty amazing effects using light rays... How is this done? Long or short version will do. Thanks much. -Susan

drawbridgep posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 5:03 PM

It's in the light lab (the E in the menu next to the light) Set the light to be visible, volume and infinite. You will find that it increases your render times a lot. Some people (Rochr) for example put a lot of the light rays in post production. He did a nice tutorial a while back on it.

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orbital posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 5:15 PM

Also light ray mat in complex effects menu, applied to a cone. You may need to experiment with the ambience/transparency settings in the material lab. It also depends on what type of sky you go for. Like Phil says take a look at Rochr's website for his postwork tutorial.

http://joevinton.blogspot.com/

susanmoses posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 6:14 PM

Great advice.... Thanks guys. -S

waldomac posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 8:24 PM

Any chance somebody knows where Rochr's tut is? Or, if it has been too long, do you think he might post it again?

drawbridgep posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 8:29 PM

Attached Link: http://www.rochr.com

Try this, loads of goodies.

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waldomac posted Mon, 26 July 2004 at 11:13 PM

Thanks. Very cool, indeed.

susanmoses posted Tue, 27 July 2004 at 6:37 PM

Thanks for all the great info on Light Rays... If you'd like to see my first attempt... see "Lu-Cheun's Oasis" posted today. A gazillion ways to do light rays I've discovered... played around with it for about 2 days... It's addicting. Thanks again. -Susan