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Morphable Lightnings/Thunderbolts?

cosmo71cosmo71 Posts: 3,609
edited January 2014 in The Commons

What about some different 3D lightnings/thunderbolts with morphs?

straight
circle
one start point - to end points (reverse Y)

and so on

Post edited by cosmo71 on

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  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 695
    edited December 1969

    I remember there was an old procedural product from a company called Zenstar, "Thør". It was a plugin for RayDream Studio and was very good.

    Alas, it went away when they replaced RDS with Carrara. Unfortunately, Zenstar never updated it. The Thør plugin won't work in Carrara & my copy of RDS5 won't work on Windows XP & above.

    I've not seen anything since come close to working as well as Thør did.

  • cosmo71cosmo71 Posts: 3,609
    edited January 2014

    the problems with planes are, they are flat :) so 3D lightning figures with morphs would be a great product I think.

    Mabye lightnings as circles with morphs so they can also be used as sci-fi cuffs for example
    Maybe some typical lightnings with two or more morphable ends
    Maybe some U lightnings with morphs for A to B horizontal use
    Maybe just one straight lighnting with morphs (wave for example) for lightning guns :)

    morphs:

    zick-zack
    wave
    length
    spread for ends
    twist
    bend x/y/z for ends
    rotation x/y/z for ends
    different lenght for ends
    thickness

    just some suggestions

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,263
    edited December 1969

    We did modeled lightning in our latest pack, but its not a separate model. It was saved with the prop

  • SylvanSylvan Posts: 2,718
    edited December 1969

    There is a free one over at RDNA that I use a lot.
    It has lots of different shapes and is morphable as well.
    Sorry, can't link it :(

  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,453
    edited January 2014

    Well, the cheap and dirty approach would be plane primitives with transmaps. The Daz Cyclorama plants and some of the trees are done this way. They look OK from certain angles. The transmaps could be done in Photoshop, or whatever. For a "circlet" or bracelet shape, you could use a torus primitive. You might have to UV map it to make a transmap work properly. Don't overlook simple solutions based on primitive shapes.

    Edit: There's a plane one on ShareCG:
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/43814/browse/11/Poser/Lightning-Plane

    Edit2: Have a look at this:
    http://www.sharecg.com/v/74189/browse/11/Poser/Fantasy-Effects-Morphable-Magic-FX

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited January 2014

    Estroyer said:
    There is a free one over at RDNA that I use a lot.
    It has lots of different shapes and is morphable as well.
    Sorry, can't link it :(

    Can you at least give a name, then someone can go find it. Sounds interesting, if we know what we are looking for.

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  • cosmo71cosmo71 Posts: 3,609
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Estroyer said:
    There is a free one over at RDNA that I use a lot.
    It has lots of different shapes and is morphable as well.
    Sorry, can't link it :(

    Can you at least give a name, then someone can go find it. Sounds interesting, if we know what we are looking for.

    got a pm, the name is: RDNA Atmospherics - Lightning Vol 1

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    These are not lighting bolts but these are Prop Effects I was working on. 100% of the lighting in this render is from the effects as loaded. I believe the Idea you have is very doable.

    Effects_Test-003.jpg
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