Need help achieving effect - Being of light
aqaraza
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Greetings! I am a novice, so please feel free to let me know if this belongs elsewhere.
I am shopping around for a shader, skin, or other effect that will cause my characters to appear as if they are traced of light, electricity, data, translucent energy, etc. An example of the type of effect I am trying to achieve:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m07jfvX4KW1r2an97o1_500.jpg
(Or, see attachment.)
Please let me know of anything you know of that gets anywhere even remotely close to this kind of effect. :) Thanks!
- aqaraza
light.jpg
500 x 744 - 170K
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It can easily be done. However to get that streaky light lines requires post work. I will make you this shader when I have time. Just need to remember where I put my Uv templates. The secret is to paint a "light" dot on the vertices of the uv map. That makes sure the dots follow the contour of the figure. (add some in-between for diversity). Then all you do is make a transparency map that isolates the dots, turn up the ambience of the diffuse texture and ur done.:) Is this for a male or female?
I too am looking for something similar to help improve my renders
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2338843&user_id=424381&np;&np;
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2335261&user_id=424381&np;&np;
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2340485&user_id=424381&np;&np;
Well, when I said novice, I meant novice -- I am actually evaluating tools and deciding which to learn (and delve into) based on the outcome of this task. So, I don't even have my model yet.
I did find these two modules as well, which get pretty darn close to kind of thing I am looking for...
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/pwghost/
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/pweffect/
- aqaraza
Studio 4 Pro actually can't be beat at the moment. Its still free I think and genesis is an amazing products and those shaders have Xray which gives you a nice almost vr effect
The picture you posted looks to me like an image projected onto wires, so I made a very simple dynamic hair in Carrara 8 for a screen. Then I added a gel image to a spotlight as a projector.
I made the gel image by adding a surface replicator containing a light bulb to V4. The bulbs had 0% intensity and excluded all objects, so they didn't actually light anything. By adding lens flare you can get all sorts of glowy special effects.
Wow that looks great Eximorph!
The OP image appears to be based on intersection of the thin tubes with the figure mesh, placing a bright spot at intersection and then fading the further away the tubes move from intersection. I know how to do that in say POV Ray, but no real idea of how to handle it in DS.