Sniper rifle light in maya?

[Anteru]

You could try to add volume fog with high density... with a small shadow map (4x4) or so you should be enough.

[gagn]

Skorepka!

I definitely think you should make a glowing tube :) It´s by far the easiest solution, but there´s no need to animate it .. Just make it the length you need, parent it to the laser emitter. For the little red dot appearing wherever it points - I found one solution, don´t know if it´s the best. Parent a projection of a circular ramp to the laser emitter, then connect the projection-node to Incandescense on all materials you wish to receive the laser dot.
Remember to pull down Default color on the Ramp to zero. Click off Wrap U and V.

I attached a little image proving it works!
There is only a slight problem: the projection will appear on all surfaces in the way... :shame:

Try it!

/Gabriel :cool:

[Royal]

Din gamla räv! Hur går det för dig i belgien?
Saknar dig i klassen det är så få som är i skolan :(
Cool lösning förresten.

Ses!

[shashi]

there's a tut with max on laser light
try working with that in maya the max version uses fog and noise
and me thinks that maya would have the same as well

[rollmops]

Parent a red spot light with a angle smaller than 1 degre and shadow-casting.
It' shoud not cross every geometry.
You may also want to use foglight if needed.
Good luck!

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