electric sphere

braindamage · May 25, 2005, 3:46pm

my latest in a line of renders with a material that I use for abstract art.

thanks to @ndy for posting how to use a blend for back lighting

very usefull

rusmannx · May 25, 2005, 4:34pm

i don’t see anything.

Gabio · May 25, 2005, 4:37pm

http://ic1.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/145/8/8/electric_sphere_by_toomuchkitty.jpg
A ok.
simple and cool.
I don’t know why I feel like the spark in the middle could be twisted.
The white strip all around was done with what? it’s a cool effect you got there.

braindamage · May 25, 2005, 5:09pm

its actually a sphere reflecting a mesh.
the white strip is an effect of a texture that mimics backlighting on the sphere ( the back lighting was made with a texture that I learned from a post by @ndy )

to get the effect just add a blend tex.
set the blend to sphere on the texture panel.
set it to norm and (-,-,Z) on the map-input tab.
on the map-to tab deselect col and select emit.
copy the tex to the second tex chanel.
change the texture blending mode to add on the map-to tab on one of the textures.

hope that works