Light Saber

[clone_commander169]

Hey I really need to know if anyone knows how to make a realistic saber. iv asked this and i keep getting the same tutorial, and the saber looks nothing like the movies.. i want to know if it is posible to make a light saber almost identical to the movie

[MMZ_TimeLord]

I'm sure it's possible. I don't believe anyone here has done one that realistic.

 

There is a tutorial on A:M Matrix for lightsaber with fanning effect.

 

This is probably the same tutorial you have been pointed to in the past.

 

I have not seen a light saber done more real than that in A:M.

 

I would grab the project from the tutorial and see if you can make it more 'realistic' (seeing as how a lightsaber is fictional)

[clone_commander169]

Lol yea thats the one iv seen

 

iv messed around with sabe and got it looking really good.. up close.. but far away it looks really bad. plus behind sertaint back grounds and lights detrmins how the glow looks

[Gene]

I think the answer to your question is YES...you can build a saber that is realistic, but like anything in 3D, it gets exponentially harder to get closer to "reality".

 

I worked this up in about 1/2 hr (mostly playing with setting for glow. Beam of lightsaber is just a spline "rendered as lines" with glow. Droid is from CD.

 

Cheers,

 

Eugene

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[guilded]

on the lighsaber model, how was the folder "relationships" created for the constraints?

[Dark_Jedi]

i think this is a lightsaber

[cuboos]

i can make realistik laightsabers in photoshop can it be aplies as a decal or somthing like that but still be transaprent?

[Rodney]

i think this is a lightsaber

 

Looks more like a painting of a lightsaber to me.

 

Clone,

While I won't ever claim this is a decent saber look I think you could realize what you are after by using several dome capped cylinders with varying transparency and specular color. You could then modify the splines of that cylinder as you need.

 

The most important factor to remember I think however would be that the effect is usually done in post production where the artists control the elements completely. That way the backgrounds and other objects in the scene only effect the saber blades if the artist wants them to. In still imagery (such as Dark Jedi posted) additional effects have been added such as lens flare too.

 

You can do this all within A:M.

[Leo73]

I helped with a fanfilm while in college and when it came time to do the saber effect, we composited it in After Effects. You could model and do a basic saber in A:M and then control the glows and contact hits and everything else in AE.

 

Hope that helps

[Dark_Jedi]

what is after effect?

[Leo73]

After Effects is a compositer and motion graphics program made by Adobe. You can do all kinds of great things in there. Check out Adobe After Effects for a description of it. Also here's a link for some lightsaber compositing movies. The glows were done in After Effects. Lightsaber Effects. You could also check out EffectsLab DV. Its alot cheaper than AE and is quite good at doing lightsabers and a variety of other effects.

 

 

Hope this helps you out

[Dark_Jedi]

i was talking to my friend about this and he sujested adding in lights to the saber instead of glow. is there anyways to make lights like bones so when arm moves light moves?