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mlabrams
08-02-2002, 08:11 PM
ok a tutorial showed me how to do the light thing,

watch this 3mb movie if you got time, its only 16 seconds, shows the sabre body good
3 megs www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/Saber.mpg
http://www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/saberdone2.jpg
http://www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/glow.jpg




ok havent try to model things in a bit, so i tryed to make my own light sabre, i have no idea how to do glow, and am horrible at texture but this is it its somthing i thought of, not really along the same lines as all starwars light sabres
i dont know how to do metal well lol, and the handle is supposed to be seethrough glas material, i coudlnt do that as well lol, and the center is supposed to glow a bit,

go easy guys, im still really new at this, but any suggestions for next time are appreciated,

http://www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/sabre1.jpg
http://www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/sabre2.jpg
http://www.chaosxdesign.com/~mlabrams/sabre3.jpg
A MacVey
08-02-2002, 08:21 PM
your saber looks pretty good...adding glow is pretty easy in photoshop. I thew the one together below in like 2 minutes, its not great

http://diehard.ath.cx/~macho/pictures/sabre3 .jpg
mlabrams
08-02-2002, 08:22 PM
hey man that looks awsome, i should learn photoshop lol,
alex_m1s1n_user
08-02-2002, 08:39 PM
what software did u use? maybe i can help u make the materials and glow so u can animate it easily without editing each frame in ps;)
mlabrams
08-02-2002, 08:49 PM
3ds max 4.2
mlabrams
08-03-2002, 09:00 AM
learned video post, yay
gaggle
08-03-2002, 02:40 PM
Just a quick thought, I would suggest skipping the Video Post thing and go for the Effects dialogbox. Ie. Rendering menu -> Effects.

The Video Post feature has been abandoned since.. R3 or something to that effect.

(not that you can't or musn't use Video Post, but for standard glow and such I belive Discreet suggests using the Effects thing nowadays)
A MacVey
08-03-2002, 04:53 PM
let me say now i have never seen a tutorial showing you how to do a light saber glow that bad! use This (http://www.theforce.net/theater/postproduction/sabres/sabertutorials.html) one, it is the one every fanfilm at fanfilms.com uses, and there are hundreds if not thousands of people there. Just compare yours to mine you can see a big difference
mlabrams
08-03-2002, 05:06 PM
thanks for the tutorial, i wasnt really happy with the glow to be honest, but i had no idea how to use the other effects
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