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From: Joe Angell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Settings for Moonlight
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> Things I've tried:
>
> Ball object for moon (With slightly larger one for transparent glow)
> Messed with high luminocity to give the glow look
> Glow behind lens flare.

You could use a flat disk instead of a ball, and map a picture of the
moon on it.  Would probobly be faster and might look better.  If you do
choose that course:

0 diffusion, 100 luminosity, Color image map of the moon on the moon.
For the glow:

  Don't know how well a Glow Behind Lens Flare might look, but I guess
    you tried that already.

  Glow Feature (but you don't have LW 4.0 yet...)

  Make a flat plane bigger than the flat moon.  Make an image map in
    DPaint that fades out at the edges.  Easiest way is to make a
    circle (preferably by rendering out the flat moon disc and the
    plane the way they would be set up in Layout, so everything will
    be the right size).  Cut the circle out as a brush, and select a
    whiteish color.  Then hit "o" to Outline the circle in the
    whitish color.  Repeat, using a slightly darker color, and after
    a bit you'll have a nice circle that has a border that fades from
    white to black.

    If you did render out the plane and the disk, you'll want to make
    sure you cut out the circle as a brush you make so it is the EXACT
    same size as the plane.  If you don't cut the brush out at right
    size, you''ll have to play with the Texture Size setting in LW so
    the map will fit.

    Now, load this image into LW.  Select the plane object, and map
    the circle as a Planar Image Map on the Transparency channel.
    Hit Autosize, and it should fit perfectly.  You may have to hit
    Negative Image for the right effect.  I used this technique to
    make a cool glow around a logo I did.

> BTW: I'm using 3.5 Amiga, so no glow option :(

That's OK -- I've heard it's pretty slow, anyway...  I'll have to
actually try it sometime.  I can almost see Glow replacing Lens Flares as
the most overused LW effect (glowing logos, glowing object, glowing
everything...)

Hope this helps...

-- Joe
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