I’m trying to make a distorted energy beam along a curve, so x/y will be the cross section, and then have z mapped along the curve itself, but I can’t figure it out.
Is it possible?
Hi,
Can you please clarify your question and maybe attach some screenshots of how you see it?
Thanks
So ideally I want to make this kind of volumetric shader along a path with a bevel:
To make an cylinder that runs through it, I’ve used a vector length of the Vector with one of the axis removed followed by a vector compare:
But because this is using the object coordinates this won’t follow the curve:
You can use geometry nodes to compute a coordinate frame based on the nearest point on a curve, but using this for shading requires a lot of memory, as ( I think) your are bound to the volume resolution:
(version 3.5.1)
volumetric_path_3.5.1_v01.blend (1.0 MB)
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