"TinCanMan" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> "John D. Gwinner" <jgw### [at] dazsicom> wrote in message
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> > Nice!
> Thanks!
> The letters come from a png image with the background solid and the
letters
> transparent.
> I then mapped them to a hollow cylinder(with no_image and no_reflection)
> and put a point light at the center of the cylinder. As you would expect,
> the light shines through the letters only.
> I then made a very thin layer of scattering media with a high density
where
> the surface of the ring is, making the light shinging through the letters
> visible (you'll notice how the lettering appears brighter at the sides of
> the ring)  I put another sphere of lower density scattering media outside
> this to pick up more of the light rays as they shine on.
> The ring itself is inside a light group so as not to pick up or block any
of
> the previous light. I put an additional light inside the light group at
the
> centre of the ring projected_through it to give the wood below it a little
> illumination.
> The letters appear to project back into the ring a bit because of the
> reflection of the light rays travelling through the media.

Oh oh post source. I've been looking for some good examples of the new
stuff.

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