or lightsabre as the case may be

thanks

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Looks like a good place for cylinders and torii!

If I were you, I'd start with a long thin cylinder, like maybe

cylinder {
<0,0,0>,<0,0,1>,.1
}

And set up the camera to look at it at an angle similar to your reference
image. Then tweak the position and radius of it until it closely matches the
shape you're trying to duplicate. (I recommend starting with just the handle
and worrying about the blade later on.)

Once you have the base cylinder, start adding objects to it. You'll want to
look up the cylinder and torus objects, as I mentioned, and maybe the box
object too. Make sure you understand basic transformations (scaling,
translating, and rotating). In the meantime, just put them all inside a
union{ ... } with a pigment{rgb 1} just so you can see it. Make sure you've
got a light source in there somewhere.

You'll also need to know CSG; this is well described in the documentation.

I'm giving you the real basics here 'cause I never keep track of names in
this newsgroup and I don't know how skilled you are with the program yet =)
Don't be offended if I'm talking down to you. When in doubt, hit the little
button that says "Scene" on the toolbar.

(BTW: as for the blade itself, try a merge of a long thin cylinder and a
sphere at the end of it to round it off, and make it hollow and use emitting
media inside it with the cylindrical pattern.)

 - Slime
[ http://www.slimeland.com/ ]

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"Flaming Monarch" <fla### [at] gatescom> schreef in bericht
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> or lightsabre as the case may be
>
> thanks
Quite some time ago, I made a Moray-model of Luke Skywalker's lightsabre
from Return Of The Jedi.  I posted the source with the image.
You can find it here: http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/10901/

cu!
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A bunch of us went on a lightsabre frenzy a few years
back. Here was my contribution:

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/10906/

Since then I've improved it a bit and I still have
the code if you want it.

Incidentally I was wrong when I said it was Luke's
lightsabre. It's actually Obi-wan's.


-- 
Phil
Over 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed yearly. It's a
commodity that's 2nd only to oil.

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Verry good!!
thats the best model of that lightsaber I've seen!
( I've seen a lot of them in the last 3 years searching the web for them)

I would like the code if you don't mind sharing :-)

Gary


Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet> wrote in message
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> A bunch of us went on a lightsabre frenzy a few years
> back. Here was my contribution:
>
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/10906/
>
> Since then I've improved it a bit and I still have
> the code if you want it.
>
> Incidentally I was wrong when I said it was Luke's
> lightsabre. It's actually Obi-wan's.
>
>
> --
> Phil
> Over 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed yearly. It's a
> commodity that's 2nd only to oil.
>

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wow thanks source would be great


Phil Clute wrote:

> A bunch of us went on a lightsabre frenzy a few years
> back. Here was my contribution:
> 
> http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/10906/
> 
> Since then I've improved it a bit and I still have
> the code if you want it.
> 
> Incidentally I was wrong when I said it was Luke's
> lightsabre. It's actually Obi-wan's.
> 
>

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> Since then I've improved it a bit and I still have
> the code if you want it.

If you have improved code, I'd very much like to see it.  I copped 
portions of your code when I made a lightsabre for my RPG character 
(image below).

I also changed some things around... there's no switch on mine, because 
it's internal -- you have to use the Force to activate it.  And I didn't 
see any reason why it couldn't have wood grips, so it does.  I think 
it's prettier. 8)

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> If you have improved code, I'd very much like
> to see it.  I copped portions of your code when
> I made a lightsabre for my RPG character

I haven't updated it since then.

> I also changed some things around...

Looks good. I like the gold.



-- 
Phil
Over 400 billion cups of coffee are consumed yearly. It's a
commodity that's 2nd only to oil.

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