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Subject: 
lightsaber effect
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Date: 
Tue, 14 May 2002 18:50:02 GMT
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How does one create a lightsaber effect in POV-Ray? And I don't mean
lighting up a lightsaber part. From my very limited knowledge of the
program, it seems you could use one (or more) cylinders with various media
applied. Other than that I am clueless!

Thanks!
--Ryan

ryanjf@ifriendly.com
http://home.ifriendly.com/~fourfarrs/home.htm



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  Re: lightsaber effect
 
I don't know Pov-ray so well, but in Autodesk VIZ R4, you just make the material self-illumintaing, and you apply a glowfilter. Like this: (URL) Hasse Lie (23 years ago, 14-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)
  Re: lightsaber effect
 
(...) I built some replacement parts for the lightsaber blade. These look normal in ldraw tools, but when you run them through l3p, the blade gets replaced by a cylinder filled with light-emitting media. Note that there are 3 different blade parts, (...) (23 years ago, 15-May-02, to lugnet.cad.ray)

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