For all of those out there who want to convert the halos that still
stink of their sweat and blood into media, I figured out how. This is
extremely obvious, but it took me soo damn to figure out it is
embarrassing, and I figured I might want to help someone else with this
dilema. What you do is, you go to your old halo, and you look at the
mapping type. Then, make an emmiting media, and make a density. Then,
make a colormap pattern of whatever you halos mapping type
was(spherical, toroidal, etc.). Then, wherever there was a transparent
entry, just replace it with a black entry. Viola! However, I've noticed
that halos were less grainy than media, but I may be wrong. Anyway,
media is a lot easier to learn, once you start to grok it, IMHO. And
more useful.

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Alex Magidow wrote in message:
>For all of those out there who want to convert the halos that still
>stink of their sweat and blood into media, I figured out how......

Hi,
Thanks for posting this. I had figured it out with the density map but not
with using colors in the color map. To smooth out the graininess click on
the media icon in the texture editor and and to the right set the intervals
to around 40. The image looks great but you will pay a price in rendering
time.

Hope this helps,
Glen

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