Both versions use media. Ive been playing with Chris Colefax's spline macro
file to smooth out the plasma effect, so far I've gotten pretty nice
results, but everyone seems to think the 1st version looks better. I guess
its the fact that I use 3 media layers on the blue version, while the yellow
versions dont, they just have the central ray and a bunch of "carrier" waves
riding them. Maybe if i added the other layers....


"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza> wrote in message
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>
> Steve G. <ste### [at] 2radnet> wrote in message
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> > my bad...that was an early test render...this is the actual
> > image
> >
> > > I was trying to emulate the effect some ships in babylon5 have when
they
> > > fire their weapons (vorlon, new prototype battlecruisers)
> > >
> > > any thoughts?
> >
>
> Boom!! <grin>
>
> I also think the test looked better. Maybe somewhere betwen the two,
> add a little arcing to the main beam of your test.
>
> Media or textures?
>
> Gail
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