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Still a work in progress, based on the artwork from Jeff Wayne's War of the
Worlds album.
Any suggestions on how to do the Heat Ray ?
Regards,
Peter H.
http://welcome.to/HoustonGraphics
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Peter Houston wrote:
> Still a work in progress, based on the artwork from Jeff Wayne's War of the
> Worlds album.
Cool spider!
But what happens when it lifts one of the legs?
Does it jump, or is it just sliding the legs along the floor?
And what kind of album is War of the Worlds?
Tor Olav
mailto:tor### [at] hotmail com
http://www.crosswinds.net/~tok/tokrays.html
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>Cool spider!
>
>But what happens when it lifts one of the legs?
>Does it jump, or is it just sliding the legs along the floor?
>
>And what kind of album is War of the Worlds?
>
>Tor Olav
>
It shifts it weight onto two legs and moves the third, don't ask me to
animate it, I have no idea how :)
War of the Worlds is a musical version of the H.G. Wells Novel, it stars the
voice talents of Richard Burton, Phil Lynott, David Essex plus others its a
classic. Worth looking for.
Regards,
Peter H.
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Oooohhhhhhhhh. MINE! As for the heat ray, in the movie, they had these
glowing, red hot cylinders... like lots of hot needles coming at you.
Try that...
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Stomps Spark Generator might be worth a try for that. The URL 404's but I have
it here if you want it.
When I made that heatray before I only used a cylindrical media with the
frequency turned up so that's a possibility.
Bob
"Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
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| Oooohhhhhhhhh. MINE! As for the heat ray, in the movie, they had these
| glowing, red hot cylinders... like lots of hot needles coming at you.
| Try that...
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"Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:38ECDE10.DF343399@aol.com...
Oooohhhhhhhhh. MINE! As for the heat ray, in the movie, they had these
glowing, red hot cylinders... like lots of hot needles coming at you.
Try that...
Wasn't it a green ray?
Did you see the film Peter? I seem to remember that the tripods had a
telescopic 3-faceted eye thingy... perhaps it's worth putting another tripod
in the final render with some rubble around it?
Good legs, but I think the feet could do with some more details... mind you,
I haven't looked at the album cover for a while so I couldn't say how they
looked!
<sigh> I 'spose I'd better get on with my old renderings :-)
Cheers
Steve
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No, they had two weapons. The Heat Ray and some Green Beam that took of
the skin so they could some cool effect in which you saw the dead guys
bones, then those disappeared too. Tanks just flared green, though, and
went bye-bye. I think the Green Beam was just in the movie though...
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I can hear the screaming guitars already!
ULLA!
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You might try making a global media and shoot a cylinder light_source out from
it. You have to have MegaPov or Superpatch for the cylinder light though.
Peter Houston wrote:
> Still a work in progress, based on the artwork from Jeff Wayne's War of the
> Worlds album.
>
> Any suggestions on how to do the Heat Ray ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter H.
>
> http://welcome.to/HoustonGraphics
>
> [Image]
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>Still a work in progress, based on the artwork from Jeff Wayne's War of the
>Worlds album.
>
>Any suggestions on how to do the Heat Ray ?
>
I've read all the comments here now, and the idea of using a cone filled
with media is good. It's easy to point it at some object and stuff.
The heat ray is red/orange. In the original novel, AFAIK, there were no
other weapons aboard the tripods. The legs are good, but on the computer
game-cover, which is true to the album, I thnik, there are some wires
connecting the first part of the leg to the "corner" (don't know the proper
English term) of the leg And there were also a supporting rod from the body
to the middle of the last part of each leg. At last, there were also some
tentacle-kind of things hanging from the belly.
This was a lot of detail, and I am only describing the front cover of the
game-box, as you can see. But I also remember reading the comic version, and
the tripods were much alike.
What about blob-modelling one of those martians? Squid-like bastards with
long, slimy tentacles.. Ahh...
For anyone interested:
I've created a realaudio clip (quite hq) from the cd I have:
http://www.uio.no/~simenkv/film/eve_of_the_war.ram . It's quite cool, I
think! Inspirational... Use .rm if you want to download the whole bastard
before you play. (~3.5 MB).
Simen.
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> Any suggestions on how to do the Heat Ray ?
Searingly hot and painfull would do it..
nice work :)
Rick
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Didn't they Martians also have these nets to hold to "food" (humans)
they caught?
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i dont think so... mind you i never read the book, and only know the legged
machines from the soundtrack cover..
Rick
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> Didn't they Martians also have these nets to hold to "food" (humans)
> they caught?
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Well, the only version I've read is a kids version, but I remember that the
martians
kept grabbing humans and taking them the their CIGAR SHAPED MOTHER SHIP (hint
hint).
"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> i dont think so... mind you i never read the book, and only know the legged
> machines from the soundtrack cover..
>
> Rick
>
> "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
> news:38EE4D8A.BAFF4FD2@aol.com...
> > Didn't they Martians also have these nets to hold to "food" (humans)
> > they caught?
> >
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In article <38F0EE22.6C08BCDD@aol.com>, "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
> Well, the only version I've read is a kids version, but I remember
> that the martians kept grabbing humans and taking them the their
> CIGAR SHAPED MOTHER SHIP (hint hint).
I don't remember a mother ship...I think each pod was part of the
landing ship itself, and each ship was about big enough to carry the
pilots, the pod(or a few pods?) and some additional parts to make it a
walking machine. There were a lot of them, but they landed separately in
a fairly widespread area. No mother ship was mentioned...and I don't
think any of them left the planet's surface again after landing, so the
mother ship couldn't have been in orbit.
They seemed more intent on exterminating the life in the area(and
replacing it with Martian life forms like the red weed) than in
conquering or taking prisoners. And I don't recall anything about using
humans as food!?!
I think the only time they grabbed someone is when they first landed and
a crowd formed...someone got too close, got grabbed and pulled into the
crater formed by the landing(and I think he was immediately killed), and
soon after a mirror popped up and the heat ray was used to incinerate a
bunch of people.
Are you sure it was War of the Worlds that you read, and that you aren't
remembering some other book? Of course, it could be my memory, I haven't
read it for a while...I should read it again soon.
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TAG(Technical Assistance Group) e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
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I need to read it again too, but mom sold our copy in a book sale.
Library!!!
Chris Huff wrote:
> Are you sure it was War of the Worlds that you read, and that you aren't
> remembering some other book? Of course, it could be my memory, I haven't
> read it for a while...I should read it again soon.
>
> --
> Christopher James Huff - Personal e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
> TAG(Technical Assistance Group) e-mail: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg
> Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/
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In article <38F0F8BC.E5F13267@aol.com>, "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
> I need to read it again too, but mom sold our copy in a book sale.
> Library!!!
I don't even have a copy-I read it while I was visiting at our
grandparents' house. :-)
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Chris Huff wrote in message ...
>In article <38F0F8BC.E5F13267@aol.com>, "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom>
>wrote:
>
>> I need to read it again too, but mom sold our copy in a book sale.
>> Library!!!
>
>I don't even have a copy-I read it while I was visiting at our
>grandparents' house. :-)
>
If you're patience, the text is available through the project gutenberg
site.
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Charles Krause wrote:
> If you're patience, the text is available through the project gutenberg
> site.
Gutenbergs site is located at: http://promo.net/pg/
Antti
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As I recall, at least in the original book, the martians came out of what
could be described as artillery shells that were fired at the Earth from
Mars. One end unscrewed to serve as the door and a heat ray was used to
"sanitize" the area before the martians came out.
Mike Wilson
Chris Huff wrote:
> In article <38F0EE22.6C08BCDD@aol.com>, "Lt. Kettch" <AKK### [at] aolcom>
> wrote:
>
> > Well, the only version I've read is a kids version, but I remember
> > that the martians kept grabbing humans and taking them the their
> > CIGAR SHAPED MOTHER SHIP (hint hint).
>
> I don't remember a mother ship...I think each pod was part of the
> landing ship itself, and each ship was about big enough to carry the
> pilots, the pod(or a few pods?) and some additional parts to make it a
> walking machine. There were a lot of them, but they landed separately in
> a fairly widespread area. No mother ship was mentioned...and I don't
> think any of them left the planet's surface again after landing, so the
> mother ship couldn't have been in orbit.
>
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In article <38F1F55C.BAC55D42@chemnet.ee>, Antti Markus
<ant### [at] chemnetee> wrote:
> Charles Krause wrote:
> > If you're patience, the text is available through the project gutenberg
> > site.
>
> Gutenbergs site is located at: http://promo.net/pg/
>
> Antti
Sounds like you folks need to read the book. :-)
Okay, there WAS black gas and it was delivered via cannister. There was
no mother ship; each shell was self-contained, and in addition to the
fighting machines the martians built other mechanical devices, although
none was as interesting as the tripod. The martians DID snatch up people
and put them in "baskets" on the back of the tripod; then they drained
the blood and pumped it into their own veins -- a rather Victorian bit
of lurid sensationalism.
Anybody who wants to render one of these things really should read the
original and not just rely on the '53 movie version or the '70's album
cover. It's still a great book.
I now have a functioning heat ray for my own tripod. :-) It glows and
pulses, and it's a really nasty green color. I'm rendering an animation
of the War Machine with rays which will takle a few days. Then I'll put
a frame or two up on my site and I'll post the heat ray code.
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