Hi all,

I'm designing a spacecraft and are looking to add lights on the

hull. The effect I'm looking for is the B5 fuzzy lights. Any clues

on how to make those.

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use media?

Tommy Grav wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm designing a spacecraft and are looking to add lights on the
> 
> hull. The effect I'm looking for is the B5 fuzzy lights. Any clues
> 
> on how to make those.
> 
> --
> Tommy Grav
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> tom### [at] astrouiono     http://www.uio.no/~tommygr/
> Institute of Astrophysics, UiO, No
> IMTU tn++t4+tg+ ru+ge++ !3i jt+au+st+ls hi++dr-so++zh-sy-sw++

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ryan constantine wrote:

> use media?
>

Bein rather new at this, does anyone want to supply some clues to pull
this off with media? (please :-)


> Tommy Grav wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm designing a spacecraft and are looking to add lights on the
> >
> > hull. The effect I'm looking for is the B5 fuzzy lights. Any clues
> >
> > on how to make those.
> >
> > --
> > Tommy Grav
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > tom### [at] astrouiono     http://www.uio.no/~tommygr/
> > Institute of Astrophysics, UiO, No
> > IMTU tn++t4+tg+ ru+ge++ !3i jt+au+st+ls hi++dr-so++zh-sy-sw++

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Just put a sphere containing spherical emitting media at each point where a
light is located. Making the sphere just a little larger than the light
objects, or whatever you have in mind.

Bob

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Bob Hughes wrote:
> 
> Just put a sphere containing spherical emitting media at each point where a
> light is located. Making the sphere just a little larger than the light
> objects, or whatever you have in mind.
> 
> Bob

that's it. you may want to play with your density a little.  you may
also want to difference a smaller sphere from the media container if you
find the center is too bright or dense or whatever.  if you use megapov,
you could give the smaller sphere a color (whatever the light should be)
and then hand edit the file to use double_illuminate.  if you don't use
mega, you could give the color a partial transparency.  and don't forget
to make the bigger sphere hollow with a transparent color or you won't
see media at all.  and don't forget to have enough samples.

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I take a cylindar for the base. Then I cut out a cone shape which
is perpindicular to the cylindar. Inside that cutout I put a
point light. Works real well. Of course I have to adjust the
falloff to about 10-20. 

Tommy Grav wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm designing a spacecraft and are looking to add lights on the
> 
> hull. The effect I'm looking for is the B5 fuzzy lights. Any clues
> 
> on how to make those.
> 

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