3D Lasers

[Ian Jones]

umm, what about just using a very long and thin cylinder? low opacity, but plenty of glow. If you are doing stills you could just put the laser in using photoshop or something similar.

[gardocki]

I'm not sure if Wings3d or Blitz3d has a glow effect. If it does, just create a long cylinder with ambient light set to 100% and apply a glow to it. If your software doesn't have any kind of post-processing capability, there is a tutorial here (http://www.theforce.net/theater/software/3dstudiomax/romanlasers_tutorial/index.shtml) that might help. It's for 3d Studio Max 3, but the technique should work in any 3d application.

Hope this helps

[slenkar]

thanks i got it in the end,
flip the normals of the outer cylinder

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