I’m trying to create an illusion of strong light passing by/through text, something like this (click on the image to see more examples from the same thing): .jpg)
I tried with a spot with a halo, but it didn’t work at all, no halo appeared. Is this possible at all?
-Martin
of course it is possible…it is called “volumetric light” check this out: http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch12s05.html
i hope you found this useful…
Thanks! I’ll try it out right away.
-Martin
Works very well… I was missing out the “Halo Step” option. And I also discovered that it doesn’t work very well with raytracing.
-Martin
That looks like it was done in Apple Motion via one of their cool drag-n-drop presets. Yes, you can do this in blender. You’ve got a lot of learning to do though. I just did something similar with halo spots last night.
Have a look at the .blend and see if you can figure out what’s going on.
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/89/LSU2.blend
You have to use buffer shadows if you want the shadows streaking through the light.
Progress so far:
It’s already animated, but I think I need to adjust the colors of the light, maybe two halos, one cyan and one white? And a lot of small tweaks… But thanks for all the help with the volumetric light/shadow:D
-Martin
If you use an IPO to rotate the lights the rays will spin adding to the coolness. I believe the text in the first image you posted also has a bit of motion blur applied.
Moving rays would be cool, but I think motion blur would add a bit too much to my already way to long rendering time, but I’ll see when I’m finished.
-Martin
It won’t if you use vector blur. As long as you keep the number of samples low (10 or so) it basically renders on the fly.
I haven’t used blender much lately, so I haven’t played much with nodes and stuff. Thanks a lot for “forcing” me to learn them;) Very efficient.
-Martin
They are Blender’s most powerful and versatile features.
