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- Re: Exploding wave effect
-
- Hmmm, by amazing coincidence, I've been working on reproducing
- this effect for about a month. I've got it good enough that I'm
- considering submitting an article about it to LWPro. So, I'm a
- little bit waffly about sharing everything.
-
- But: in short form:
- 1) Follow the saturn's ring example from the LW manual to get a
- strip morphed into a ring. Before doing the bend, have at least
- 10 subdivisions in what will be the radial direction after the
- morph. Give each a different surface name.
-
- 2) Set up the morph as in the ring example.
-
- 3) For each surface, set fractal noise transparency, *** Global
- Coordinates ***, and vary the value of the transparency from the
- leading edge value of about 10% to the trailing edge value of
- 400% (yes, 400%).
-
- Lots of other little tricks with colors and lens flares will help
- the anim look better.
-
- Anyone want to see a full LWPro article on this? John?
-
- Lloyd Eldred, PhD
- Galtham Films
- galtham@universe.digex.net
-
- (forgot to cc: this to the list the first time, I think, so here
- it is just for the list.)
-
-