"James Bulgin" <jam### [at] nfsympaticoca> wrote in message
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>
> Now, I've manage to achieve most of the effect using media (the faint
rising
> stream of energy internally which you can't really see on such a poor
> quality clip), however I can't get the outline to look anything near
right,
> more specifically, it's not spikey enough and I'm having a hard time
getting
> the little tufts of flame to seperate from the main body along the top, or
> get a more jagged edge along the sides.
>
> I've tried dozens upon dozens of combinations of media with layered
> densities with density maps, and nothing really achieves this effect. I
> tried using sort of spiky meshes as the media container, but that actually
> makes it look worse (the spiky bits look far too solid) I've perused a
great
> number of old threads in the newsgroups, but didn't find anything really
> useful. So again I ask, can anyone help me here?


At first i thought there must be a way to use media for this. Then I reread
what you had to say about what you were trying to achieve and the part about
sharp outlines does seem problematic for something like media to be both
semitransparent and sharp. The obvious solution then might be either a
pigment pattern or an actual object (like blob), but I can imagine problems
with both. A 2 dimensional pattern won't be 3D, a shape would be too
sharp-edged.

Sorry that I'm not being of real help here, just wanted to try and flesh
this question out a little more. Which, by the way, might be asked at
another of the groups to get more input.

Bob H.

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