Hello everyone and thanks for looking...

Got a question about creating a lighted object in Poser 8, but when I typed "poser lights props procedural" into the tutorial search function, it came back with over 600 entries, but didn't display any of them! (Does the Rendo search tool have issues? I use Google Chrome... )

What I want to do is take a Poser basic cylinder object, make it into a long thin laser beam, then change it's material settings so that it is a colored light source. Kind of like a florescent light, or a light saber. If it can give off a soft glow, even better.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1863987&user_id=460330&page=10&member&np 
Click this link for an example of what I'm trying to do.

Usually I do these effects in post work with Photoshop, but I'm trying to get the light reflections off shiny surfaces. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Tom
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