[Setekh]

I've finally discovered a quick, fairly painless way to create beams without 3D modelling software or any overly complicated procedures. And it looks fantastic, compared to my previous efforts  

 

What do you all think?  

[NeoHunter]

Great beams!!!   Care to share it with the rest of us?

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[Darkage]

Wow great work dude

[Setekh]

That should probably be the Auriga.  

[Fineus]

I like it! how did you do it?

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[Setekh]

Well it's not really special or anything, but it no longer relies on estimations - it's an exact, mathematical way to render them  

[Fineus]

And?

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[Jabu]

Pretty damn cool  

[Shrike]

...And he's not going to share his new toy just yet.  

[Setekh]

Well I'm not just going to tell anyone   I could just do a Dark[tm] and disappear  

[Bobboau]

looks like he's useing some sort of post procecing thing, me I just make a few cylinders and give them progresivly whiter textures as they get smaller and give them erroded transperency and translucent reflectence, and the same for the little ball at the begening just with spheres,

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[Setekh]

All of my image creation is post-processing.  

[Setekh]

Here's another one, this time Shivan. You can see I went to the obvious choice in Shivan beam supremacy   In hindsight, I think I should have made the beams on this one bigger.

 

[Fineus]

Certainly looks like you've perfected that techniue dude, I'm gonna have to go and practice a bit  

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[Styxx]

Okay, now you challenged me.  

   

Note: this render was a nebula effect test. Inside the nebula, that is.  

[This message has been edited by Styxx (edited 03-11-2001).]

[Jabu]

Otherwise very nice, except the beams don't look "Freespacey"  

[Styxx]

Okay, okay. How about this?  

 

Better?

[Shrike]

I give it the Golden Shivan Award.

[Styxx]

 

Originally posted by Shrike:
I give it the Golden Shivan Award.

I'd like to thank the academy, my parents, my dog, and... *sob* I promised myself I wouldn't cry but... *sob* *sob*


Heh, thanks. Wait until you see that thing animated...  

[Jabu]

Better.