Caroluk opened this issue on Oct 25, 2001 ยท 10 posts
Caroluk posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 3:48 PM
I wanted a strange sort of atmosphere for this, so I used light rays, a rainbow and a lens flare (impossible in real life where you need the sun behind the camera for a rainbow and in front of it for a lens flare.)
The ship is the Vue4 vessel with all its materials changed to luminous glass
Varian posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 4:40 PM
Very eerie appearance! :)
SAMS3D posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 5:14 PM
Very nice, what did you do to the ship, make it transparent? Looks great. Sharen
Caroluk posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 6:21 PM
Thanks Varian and Sharen. Sharen, I changed all the materials in the ship to glass. I changed one material in the Display Materials Summary then dragged that to all the others so I only had the one to deal with. All the preset glasses were a bit blue, so I changed the colour to white, and I also used a bit of luminosity. I experimented with glow as well, but it was a bit OTT. Basically I just kept playing around with the settings and rendering a little bit of hull till I got the effect I was after.
I have a feeling that if you did it with bright blue and used glow you could get a great St. Elmo's fire effect, but I don't feel strong enough for another 18hour render.
MikeJ posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 6:31 PM
Beautiful, Carol. I love the way the ship turned out, and the atmosphere is excellent. :)
Caroluk posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 7:23 PM
Thanks Mike Carol
tradivoro posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 8:35 PM
Great ghost ship... You've definitely captured an eerie atmosphere... Now I know what happened to the mary celeste... :) Its in your picture...
Ms_Outlaw posted Thu, 25 October 2001 at 8:41 PM
It looks great.
Jilly posted Fri, 26 October 2001 at 6:51 AM
I love the feel of this one.Great effects and glorious colours.Well done.
Caroluk posted Fri, 26 October 2001 at 1:20 PM
Thank you very much, everyone Carol UK
