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Hi All , Heres a MPEG link to a light saber effect i amworking on in the propack (366k Mpeg dial up users welcome) Mocap

That was cool. Max or LW?

Actually its all poser propack!!! with the energy blast done in strata Media paint in post production. The saber Blade is an imported simple Stretched capsule I made in cinema 4DXL6 and saved as a 3ds object i had to take it into the setup room and add one bone to it to make it a poser figure so i could parent the handle( a posercylinder prop) to it and assignthe handle a different material then i chose his left hand as the parent of the saber "figure". I was able to Fake the glow of the saber by making its ambient color flourescent green and putting a green spotlight in the studio and using posers "point at "command to make it follow the saber wherever it moved so when the saber passes in front of his body it appears to cast off a green glow. i rendered it usng Propacks new motion blur feature which also helps to simulate the glowing saber in motion. this idea came to me in the middle of the night and i put this scene together in about an hour, including rendertime My first effort at a light saber last year involved opening the footage in media paint and painting the glowing blade on frame by frame (Argghh!!) I will spend more real time putting together some jedi/sith action this weekend these early tests look promising . Mocap