[Bishop Gantry]

IMO both beams are to bright white

Jedi1: Ive got a sabre to
Jedi2: prepare for defeat
Jedi1: I am your father
Jedi2: dam...

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Sandwich


You wanna do a nice detailed tutorial on how to do beams in TS5? 'Cause I for one would love to know how.

Well, to get results like this:

http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/qm/pub/snipes/Kurruk_in_Action_firefight.jpg

I'll tell you how Kazan taught me...

Make a plane. About 90 long in x, and about .5 in y, clone it, and make it at 45 degrees on the x axis, do it again for -45 and again for 90,  group it into a single object (like with trueview) then texture it with any beam texture. Use the filter on the texture so that all the black is filterred out (it's the blue sphere above the texture's pic). Tile it however many times you wish, and for a reflectance, I've found Matte, with full luminence, and 1/2 diffusion works nicely.

For the beam glow, use any flare image you have (FS2 suns work quite nicely) put it on a plane, make the plane perpendicular to the beam, at the end, and Viola! Beautiful see-through beams.

Next leson may be laser bolts.

[Sheepy]

MMMMmmmmmmmmmmm 404 my favorite number ....

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Sheepy
MMMMmmmmmmmmmmm 404 my favorite number ....

Link fix0r3d.

[Riven]

ooh please tell us how to do your wonderfull laser bolts:nod:

[Star Dragon]

Cause the beam looks crisper/cleaner and the left starting beam is too thin... other than that , they are almost equal to me.

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Riven
ooh please tell us how to do your wonderfull laser bolts:nod:

FS uses the 3 elipse procedure for making laser bolts, right?
I did the same.

I made a section out of planes like I did with the beams, only shorter, made another, and another.

I stretched them out into a circle, oval and stretched oval and lined them up to make the pulse.

It'd be better if I put the model up for DL and let everyone see, but not everyone uses TS5 and I don't know if it'd work with anything else.

[Knight Templar]

the one on the left would be "beamyer" if u could still see the particles, or light or w/e at the end, jus a lil'. th eright one looks like the game.

[Riven]

Originally posted by Raa Tor'h



FS uses the 3 elipse procedure for making laser bolts, right?
I did the same.

I made a section out of planes like I did with the beams, only shorter, made another, and another.

I stretched them out into a circle, oval and stretched oval and lined them up to make the pulse.

It'd be better if I put the model up for DL and let everyone see, but not everyone uses TS5 and I don't know if it'd work with anything else.

Umm. not sure what u mean, but hey, i use TS5 so the model sure would be useful.

BTW the beam technique worked a treat!

[Sesquipedalian]

Right is better.  It is crisper and cleaner, giving it a more deadly, I'm-going-to-lance-a-hole-right-through-your-ship feeling.  The left one is too soft and poofy, threatening to viciously attack you with a feather-duster.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by Sesquipedalian
Right is better.  It is crisper and cleaner, giving it a more deadly, I'm-going-to-lance-a-hole-right-through-your-ship feeling.  The left one is too soft and poofy, threatening to viciously attack you with a feather-duster.

ROFL!!!