Shield hits in LW 8

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• count23361 Posts: 781Member

  January 2007 #2

  

  lwg3d.org has discussions on the best way to implement this, the current working idea is Cloth FX with a particle emitter.

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• DAve0 Posts: 0Member

  January 2007 #3

  The 'normal' method is to surrond the shileded object with a transparent shield mesh (the simplest would be a sphere, more complexs would be a mesh that matched the ship shape). Then add a gradient texture which referenced a NULL and added noise to the texture on the shield so as the NULL approches the sheild the texture appears.
  
  Not a great description, but I'm sure I have seen tut's around for this, try..
  
  Lightwave Tutorials on the Web for many LW tut's
  
  Also a brief search using the googleiser yeilded...
  Tigerclaw: Body - Which is the method I was trying to explain (badly)
  
  Also SpinQuad LightWave 3D Community - Animated texture: Shields Up for a different effect that could probably be modified.
  
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• TheMightySpud1 Posts: 0Member

  January 2007 #4

  I've managed to crack it in LW8, am just trying to find time to write up the tutorial.
  
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• fluxfire181 Posts: 604Member

  February 2007 #5

  

  Could you PLEASE i have been trying to figure this out in LW but i am new to the Modeling programs how ever i do have some limited expericance in LW 9 at rendering videos. Just can't model for *$%^$
  
  So if you could find the time to either post the tutorial or send me a pm of how to do it. I would greatly apprecitate it.