Saber Glow by Seaview123
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Hello everyone and thanks for looking...
This picture is kind of an experiment... The Light Saber props are a freebie from 'pgmeri' (or 3-d-c, as he goes by on ShareCG), and I'm playing around in the material room with the ambient settings. I increased the setting to about 50 to give the sabers a glow and turn them into sort of a point light. Unfortunately, while the blue one stays kind of blue, the red one turns yellow. I'm not sure why that is, and if any one knows, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks folks, and I hope you like it.
Tom
Seaview123
Comments (39)
Beliasxxx
got me dude.. looks good though
Tracesl
excellent
UteBigSmile
This is a very nice looking scene, well done!
pixeluna
Great lighting, their light sabers turned out nicely. Great details and background prop, fantastic work, Tom!
SteamZone
Hi Tom: I'm as puzzled as everyone else by the saber color shift. Certainly, if you haven't already, see what's going on with the Translucency settings in the Advanced tab of the Materials Room. But when it really comes down to it, I find making area glows in D/S or Poser is usually more trouble than it's worth. It's all faster, better and easier in PS--or Gimp, or Elements, or Painter, or whatever! Just open a new file, drop in your render file as a layer, and then create a couple of new layers on top. The trick is to set the Layer Mode of any layer you want to glow to either Overlay or Hardlight. Pick a nice soft brush and paint away. Finally, tweak the Layer Opacity to get exactly the amount of luminance that you want. Now, if you want to build a real lightsaber, you'll need the handle from a Speed Graphic flash gun -- and those are real hard to find these days.
davidabailey
Just a suggestion but I think if you used the same trick as you used on your angel wings image here you could improve this.Make a selection of the light sabers,copy 'em to another layer,apply gaussian blur to taste and then reduce the opacity until you get a nice glow.The edges look a bit too sharp to me.Just my opinion and I hope I don't offend.
Minda
Great effects and superb work tom//
mrestey
Well, even though the light sabers didn't come out quite the way you wished, the image is nice just the same. I like the poses and lighting especially. Nice environment too.
KageRyu
It has a little to do with the way the light is handled in 3D applications as to why the color appears to change. While in a digital environment Intensity as a result of lighting is not true intensity it is handled with various algorythms that affect saturation of color. While the blue turns a Turquoise, the Red turns more Yellowish, if you continue to push the Ambiance, the colors will continue to bleed out until they reach a close whitish color. You can see a similar effect playing with colored lights in Poser and adjusting the intensities up and down. In other 3D programs, the Red would head more for pink first, while yet others it shifts toward orange. The culprit is the mathmatic formulas that are used to translate Intensity and Luminosity into and on-screen color. I hope this helps a bit.