A Eureka moment happened just an hour ago.
I been making this Star Wars wip Bandit. While trying to come up with a lightning or plasma ball weapon
I discovered I can do something I cannot in R10. I can create the effect with a simple adding the animated lightning
to the lumince channel using a transparent render. and it will overlay the original materials and all the selections.
I am juiced.
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While thinking of stuff as per usual, (Star Wars short wip) I often have thought how I could do that "Electrified Ship" effect
seen in several shows and films. Well, I did it. quite by accident.
Now, this would never fly I believe in my R10, but am using the R13 Demo atm.
While making up some kind of way our Hero can fire from behind, and I thought an Electric ball or plasma lightning.
So, I was trying to create one using just a sphere and a animated texture with alpha channel also for transparency.
Also was thinking of an inverse light with noise for plasma when I thought, well, lets see, if I drop this material onto the ship,
and mix textures(R10) I might get some effect. And it worked!!! Oh. now I am juiced to make more video.
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Im sure someone has made a plasma plugin that uses splines,which you could combine multiple splines then drop into a sweep nurb and youre sorted :-) i know nitroman has done an electric fx but i havent used it personally