Anybody know where I can find the lightsaber Luke made for himself in Return Of The Jedi? Thanxs. I remember there was only the handle so I will make a blade myself.

ChrisGFX has Luke's RotJ saber-hilt at PropsGuild.

If you have need of others, _dodger has Poser props (with working blades) of almost every lightsaber from the Star Wars saga (Obi-Wan's, Yoda's, Anakin's, Darth Maul's, Count Dooku's, etc.) in the Free Stuff at 3D Commune.

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thanks for the tip Little Dragon ;) ... on my site there will be a "Look like Lightsaber" the next week ... with working blade. Chris aka ChrisGFX

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

I wondered what username you were going by, here. :)

Looking forward to it. I've been playing around with lightsaber animation effects in Poser lately, and can always use good hilts for closeups.

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looks really cool ... how have you made that saber effect?

"It Is Useless To Resist!" - Darth Vader

I did two separate renders in Poser; one of Sabrina with the saber, the other with the saber-blade alone. I applied postprocessing filters (blur, noise, alpha glow, etc.) on the saber-blade video in Adobe Premiere, then composited the two clips together using an Additive Dissolve transition. Too much noise, though. It looks more like a flame effect than a proper lightsaber. I'll keep working on it. It's a good technique for detailed close-ups, but for distance shots I'll probably just use a blade-prop with transmaps, maximum Ambient values, and minimal postwork.

Have you tried making a rod from a cylinder and in render:material set transparency: min to 100 max to 0 falloff to taste ?

Yes, but as usual I can't leave things as simple as that. I have to make it needlessly complicated with nested cylinders.

Here's my idea of a transparent blade prop (see image above). 100% Poser, no postwork, discount lightsaber hilt by JFStan.

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