Forum: Carrara
Subject: Making a nebula
ShawnDriscoll opened this issue on May 14, 2005 ยท 9 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 14 May 2005 at 1:50 AM
I can't remember if it was posted here or elsewhere at one time. But has anyone used Primivol to make a nebula? Or is there another way using what Carrara 4 already has?
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alkart2003 posted Sat, 14 May 2005 at 8:24 PM
You can really do some cool Nebula effects with primvol by changing the color variation and core density also add noise in the effects area at high levels. Just experiment with brightness contrast and all the features. Thats how I figured it out. I'm posting a Jpeg for you to see.
ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 14 May 2005 at 11:23 PM
Ok. I'm starting to learn more that adding noise makes a world of difference. Your nebula looks like it could be ginormic in size because of that one small touch added to it. Thank you.
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Sardtok posted Sun, 15 May 2005 at 10:16 AM
drroooool Me wants Primivol, now...
hdaggers posted Mon, 16 May 2005 at 11:23 AM
Nicholas86 posted Mon, 16 May 2005 at 6:15 PM
Kixum posted Tue, 17 May 2005 at 11:29 AM
I've taken images of nebula (actually hand paintings) and done some conversion on them in Paint Shop Pro to isolate them (i.e., made everthing transparent except the nebula). Then I've dropped that image onto a single plane and also mixed the image with a value in the transparency channel. Then, with a simple star map (white dots on black) mapped into the background of the scene, I can "hang" the nebula anywhere and then shoot footage in the "space set". The final result is relatively cheap render time wise and you can shoot at any angle etc. You could casually do this with the image you've posted. -Kix
-Kix
Kixum posted Tue, 17 May 2005 at 11:35 AM
Here's another image from my space environment set. You can see the same nebula "flipboard" hanging in the background. This environment has a lot of space stuff in it and I simply delete the stuff I don't want when building a scene. Makes it easy. -Kix
-Kix
hdaggers posted Wed, 18 May 2005 at 7:45 AM
Alkart, your pic had me playing with the pimivol demo all night.... Had to buy it this morning! Here's a supernova.
