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Offline vyper

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Everything's Better with Beams
How... how... how... do you render a beam weapon in Truespace 3?
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Offline Bobboau

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makt a few spheres apply some sort of fracrtal coloring and eroded transparency, the smaller ones should be brighter and should be less transparent, use constant relectivity, and do the same with a bunch of cylinders
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Offline vyper

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I was afraid you'd say something like that:eek:
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Offline Anaz

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Fractal coloring...is that like making light come out of it? (please say yes...), and how do you do this...I don't see it in the color sphere on shader options...
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Offline Bobboau

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by fractal I meant something like the clouds or marble coloring, I don't remember all of what is available in TS3
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learn to use PCS
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DEUTERONOMY 22:11
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Offline Anaz

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I have ts 4.2...
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Offline Bobboau

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but the person who origonaly asked doesn't
Bobboau, bringing you products that work... in theory
learn to use PCS
creator of the ProXimus Procedural Texture and Effect Generator
My latest build of PCS2, get it while it's hot!
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DEUTERONOMY 22:11
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Offline Carl

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Everything's Better with Beams
you really kinda can't make any quality beams in truespace 3. you'll have to post-process with photoshop.
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Offline Anaz

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can you in ts 4 carl?
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Offline vyper

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LOL, I couldn't do it in psp 7 b4 and I probably can't now :lol:
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