[lobsterclaw]

Only the beams are mine (picture credit to Corsair) but if you have any suggestions on how to improve it i would greatly appreciate it.

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[Knight Templar]

Ta-da! Love me.

[StratComm]

Pretty good, those beams actually look like beams.  I've seen better renders of the Raynor though.  Needs more natural lighting, and some turret repositioning, but that's not an issue with your pic.

[lobsterclaw]

thanks.  KT says that the glow at the base is too transparent or something.  I used solarcell for that cause i didn't know what else to use.

[Knight Templar]

I like the beams. They are great, but for some reason the glow at the base looks like The Blob™ to me.

Maybe it's just because it's you

[lobsterclaw]

Gee, thanks KT:rolleyes:


Well, if anyone has any suggestions how to make it look less like The Blob™, please help.

[NeoHunter]

Nice design! And not to mention great looking beams! How did you do it?

[lobsterclaw]

I used a lightsaber tutorial and just messed around with it.  You can PM me if you want to know exactly how i did it.

[Razor]

Those are pretty good beams. I made some of my own too. Wanna take a look? This way to the link

[Razor]

By the way that saber tut? Bleh! Those are just light sticks not light sabers. Get the load of this!

[an0n]

.........Well I'm quite proud of it anyway.

Y'know, I really should finish that off some day.

[Warlock]

Hmmm kinna 'glassy' looking though Anon. Not bad,..just a tad glassy

[Anaz]

I agree with Warlock...looks kinda like a flourecent bulb

[Knight Templar]

reminds me of one of these .

[lobsterclaw]

By the way that saber tut? Bleh! Those are just light sticks not light sabers.  Get the load of this!

I don't know if you want to tell me, but how did you do those? If you won't tell me that, what program did u make them in?

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by Razor
Those are pretty good beams. I made some of my own too. Wanna take a look? This way to the link

I like Lobby's better

You're are too black and white.. black being the color, white being the white. They look comic bookish. Replace them with your sabers

[lobsterclaw]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


 

You're are too black and white.. black being the color, white being the white. They look comic bookish. Replace them with your sabers

Definitely use the sabers.

[Sandwich]

Originally posted by lobsterclaw
Gee, thanks KT:rolleyes:


Well, if anyone has any suggestions how to make it look less like The Blob™, please help.

The main problem I see is that the green glow is too opaque - it needs to be more transparent, but not too much. Do this...

*points to title*

Make sure that the blending mode of the layers you have your glows on is set to screen. Then, if it still looks blobby (bloby? One "b" or two? ), reduce the opacity of the green glow layer only (you do have the green glow on a different layer from the white core, correct?).

Also, try and get the green glow to progressively be more transparent the further it is from the white core, both at the warm-up as well as the beam itself. Basically, the white should be solid all the way through, liek it is, but the green should go from solid (right next to the white) to completely faded out around the circumference.

[Razor]

Originally posted by Knight Templar


I like Lobby's better

You're are too black and white.. black being the color, white being the white. They look comic bookish. Replace them with your sabers

WHAAT? You guys finally like something I made?
Ok well I would do it but teach me how to make, do, play with layers ok?

[lobsterclaw]

Only if you tell me how you did those lightsabers.