Lightnings...

[stickyblue]

i dont know the exact answer for your problem but you can render the lightnings seperate and composite them later

[Zoomie]

ah this wont work because the lithings are too difficult to composite them (they won't merge with the background which should be lighted too)

[DeathBrain]

Can you attach your image here please ? ;)
maybe we can solve the problem :)

[Zoomie]

eh yes. i think you see the difference of the color :D the same problem is with the glow intensity

http://mitglied.lycos.de/zoomieshp/kanone_lightning_perspShape_tmp.jpg

[DeathBrain]

Aha...so there you are the problems :scream:
Anyway why don't you use paintFX tools to create those Lightnings ?
PaintFX has great Lightning's option, also colors and glow intensity :)

[Zoomie]

ehm PaintFX? I dont know this program. is it included? where can i use it?
...

anyway i changed the settings "colour" and "glow intensity" but these settings only influence the lighntings, not the objects beeing lighted

[DeathBrain]

Whoah...PaintFX tools is built-in with Maya :)
Go to rendering panel, and select Paint Effects then Get Brush, lots of great Lightnings there :beer:

[DeathBrain]

Here's a sample i created for you with paintFX Lightnings :)
http://www.geocities.com/zigaretos/sample.txt
cool eh...:)

[Zoomie]

oh i didnt see this lightnig :D thanx for the info! i'll try it.

[DeathBrain]

Np Zoomie...:wavey:

[Zoomie]

ah well it didnt work really good. the same problem with the glow intensity....

THE SAME PROBLEM! All objects are beeing lighted and are so bright!!!!!!! damn

http://mitglied.lycos.de/zoomieshp/kanone_15_perspShape_tmp.jpg

[DeathBrain]

Errh...what kind of light are you using ?
Try spot light or area light ;)

[Zoomie]

light? there's no light, there's a lighning. i cant chanbge the kind of light on an lighnting. but i can make a shadow. hope it will work better,

[DeathBrain]

I mean scene light, not those lightning :)
There's no lights at all on those scene ? :eek:
Thats why your scene looks too bright
Try to put only one light in a front of those gun and turn on use depthmap shadows :)

[DeathBrain]

So it should be like this one :)

http://www.geocities.com/zigaretos/try2.txt

[Zoomie]

well, i used the lightning "goldSparks" but "lighntingRed" doesnt glow. i'll try this lightning now in my scene (rendertime 30 min.)

but i didnt really understand you.
i've 2 lights in the scene. the sun and a point light on the other side, so that you see the model (otherwise it would be dark)

you want me to put a (point)light inb front of the model an turn on the funktion "use depthmap shadows?

[Zoomie]

OHMYGOD!
i found that stupid problem:banghead: :banghead:
sorry for my stupidness:

i modelled in the gridmode (key "4")
i wanted the middel of my model glowing in one colour, so i changed that colour. but other objects used that colour too, so all they were glowing in this colour :banghead: but i didnt see it because i didnt see the textures :hmm: ah well altough thanks, because the dynamic-lightnings really was glowing so bright.

but now another question: how did you make the grass? it looks much better than mine. my grass looks too "good" i want more brown grass..

[DeathBrain]

I used 1 spot light with red/yellow color in top of those browny ground area...:cool:
Green (grass) + Red & Yellow (light) = browny looking grass ;)

[BigSky]

Hey... In case this is helpful later, you can use light linking.
You can set some lights to light some objects, and some lights to light none. You can get lots more control like this, save render time, etc.

[Zoomie]

ok thanx!

you see the result here (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=758157#post758157)

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