Lightsaber

[haunter]

Originally posted by davidpsy

LIMBO WILL FIX ALLL!!!

Roar@! Im going to slice you up with my green plastic stick thing!

[marcoR]

GOD NO!

[Scott]

Gradient-ish.

[zs0]

Oms. Teh Scott speax omsoms

[Thak2]

Looks alright.

But what is Hyper-Limbo music?

[marcoR]

Woa.. man.. I was wondering if Scott had died like.. three days ago!

[haunter]

Originally posted by marcoR
Woa.. man.. I was wondering if Scott had died like.. three days ago!

He did... Maybe he's a zombie now... *eyes ZH*...



WHAT HAVE YOU DONE>!?!?

[KyleOdin]

That does not look too bad to me but to be a real lightsaber, it needs is a subtle glow effect radiating from the edges of the beam. Making something like that would require partial transparency support, which Graal currently does not support which I hope they will sometime in the near future.

I played around with the latest post of your lightsaber Donald and decided to see if I could find a way to get the beam to glow right using the current versions of graal. Without partial transparency support, there is no true way of getting effects like the one I made into Graal.

Here is a screenshot taken from Photoshop so you can all see the glow effect and I am sharing the Photoshop file itself if you want to look at the glow effect and alpha channel on your end.


Screen capture from Photoshop:
http://www.end-of-ages.com/hosted/ky...osaberglow.png

Photoshop file seen in the picture:
http://www.end-of-ages.com/hosted/ky...osabertest.psd


Maybe Graal will support partial trans in the near future; at least I can dream it will anyway.


Working on EoA Graphics,

[davidpsy]

Originally posted by KyleOdin

Nice job, I would of done that too but graal doesnt support it so I didn't see a need. It does support lights so if you could make that glow but as a light and put it in a gani then you could get the same effect.

[KyleOdin]

I sure you could have Donald but the edit only took a few minutes and I wanted to see how it would look glowing.

What is the point of knowing how to do complex image effects if I cannot even use simple partial trans and blended alpha channels on Graal?

I guess I have gotten spoiled working on video and advertising graphics and forget that the graal engine cannot support some of the things that I take for granted when working on those types of images.

[Hevaricubed]

Originally posted by KyleOdin
Maybe Graal will support partial trans in the near future; at least I can dream it will anyway.

It will