magus2017 opened this issue on Jun 23, 2007 · 6 posts
magus2017 posted Sat, 23 June 2007 at 12:13 PM
Hello all
I am a beginer with Carrara. My question is how do I create laser, and explosion effects ? Like the phasers, and photon torpedoes from star trek ?
I think the particle emmiter is what is used. Am I correct ?
Marc
bwtr posted Sat, 23 June 2007 at 9:27 PM
You have particle immeters in Carrara--including a lot of presets in the Browser.
Specifically in relation to laser effectrs there has been a recent thread here I think. You could try a search of this forum.
bwtr
Miss Nancy posted Sun, 24 June 2007 at 2:32 PM
a laser beam is invisible in a vacuum, but atmospheric fx can show its path. they sometimes faked it with a glowing tube, but perhaps the thread referred to by bwtr has some way of making a lite source cast an extremely narrow cylindrical ray.
bwtr posted Sun, 24 June 2007 at 8:15 PM
bluetone posted Sun, 24 June 2007 at 8:53 PM
A simple cylinder shrunk down in 2 dimensions and extending it in the 3rd. Give it the preset of sub-surface scattering 'Lava Lamp' shader, then tweaking the transparent a bit, then tweaking the color to suit. Adding Anything Glows (included with more recent versions of Carrara,) and setting the Scene to have both a 3D Aura and Glare effects.
Hope this helps! :D
bluetone posted Sun, 24 June 2007 at 8:56 PM
The Carrara file exceeds R'Osity's file size limit otherwise I'd attach it here. If anyone would like a copy, email me your address @ bluetone@verizon.net and I'll send it along! :D