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- On Thu, 27 Oct 1994, James Jones/Nibbles and Bits wrote:
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- > At the risk of sounding like I don't get out much, what's a negative
- > light and animated projection lights? (If you've got a minute...)
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- > Negative light sounds like something called a "flashdark" I once saw
- > in a cartoon... it cast a pool of dark instead of, ah... light. :)
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- Yup, that's pretty much exactly what it is. :) 3DS (Gag) will actually do
- subtractive light addition (Oxymoron) if you enter negative numbers for
- the light intensity. Kinda cool. It would also be neat if (and Lightwave
- may already do this, I'm a PC geek so I have never used Lightwave but I
- eagerly await the PC version so I can ditch this POS 3DStudio stuff) like
- Imagine does, let you enter numbers that are above the 255 "limit" and
- those severely intense light sources will wash out the image. I found
- that feature really useful for things like blinding explosions and running
- real close to bright lights and stuff.
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- An animated projection light is a spotlight that acts like a film
- projector. Instead of a solid color, it projects an image of an
- animation. So for example if you have a 30-frame animation assigned to
- the projector spotlight, each frame it will project a single frame from
- that animation onto whatever you're aiming the spotlight at. It's useful
- for doing things like water reflections (Make an animation of a water
- surface and then project that on the walls around the water surface)
- and... movie projectors. :)
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