Faking volumetric shadows

[NeptuneImaging]

Kind of like splinter cell...?

[Mylenium]

The old cone trick is great for faking volumetric light but has anyone every came up with a cheat for shadows where the object is being animated thru it (say a character, not a ball) and the results were great?

Compositing? Mapped Spotlights? Using a program that supprts CG-Shaders to do such things in realtime? Choose which ever seems most practical to you *giggle*.

Mylenium

[SplineGod]

The old cone trick is great for faking volumetric light but has anyone every came up with a cheat for shadows where the object is being animated thru it (say a character, not a ball) and the results were great?

Try using the spinning light trick but with volumetrics turned on a set to sprite mode. If you use any textures on it set them to world coords. :)

[colkai]

Ooh, gonna have to give this one a go, thanks Larry. :)

[Ed Bittner]

Larry,
Any inside ideas on how Zoic did the "volumetric" looking lights coming out the back of Serenity, (on Firefly), just before it makes a lightspeed jump? Got a Serenity model, and thus far haven't been able to get that particular look.
E.

[ASCIISkull]

Larry,
Any inside ideas on how Zoic did the "volumetric" looking lights coming out the back of Serenity, (on Firefly), just before it makes a lightspeed jump? Got a Serenity model, and thus far haven't been able to get that particular look.
E.

Do you have a reference?

[SplineGod]

I was going to ask the same thing :)

[Ed Bittner]

Sorry for not posting a shot but I don't have a place to host 'em and they are always really small. I'll try .

E.

[Ramon]

Sorry for not posting a shot but I don't have a place to host 'em and they are always really small. I'll try .

E.
Hi Ed. From those screen shots, it looks as if it could be transparency mapped polys. I haven't seen the animation though. But even if the camera flys into the "volume" that can be faked in post to resemble volume (with more control and a lot less time in rendering).

[ASCIISkull]

Also, they might be volumetrics with a texture applied to them.

[SplineGod]

Hey Ed, thanks for sending the reference.
Its still hard to tell from those whats going on. I wish I had an avi or something to look at :)

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