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Ok, so I was playing around with hair yesterday, and I messed up the order of my transparencies, which sparked an idea... Fiber optic hair! Simple, make most the hair transparent, and solid at the tip. Throw in some glow, and viola! I tried it, and my mouth dropped! (What I can use it for, I haven't got a heck of a clue. ;) )

 

It's probably already been done, but I thought I had to share. :)

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That's a great thing to discover. Fiber optic lamps were the rage in the early 70's along with lava lamps. A more detailed tute would be appreciated :)

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Ok, you knew it was next... Color. :)

 

And animated. Sorry about the file size. I tried and tried to compress it without it looking horrid, this is the best I could do.

 

And Dhar, I'll try a basic tutorial when I have time. :)

 

P.S. So far, there IS one flaw. I color using a hair color map, which is overridden by the hair colors, if set. As there isn't such a thing as a ambiance hair color map, it requires you use a diffuse color map. As far as my little brain can figure, that means having a light shine on it, in order to have the color show. *Wonders how hard it would be to program in a ambiance color map*

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Wow, Daniel! That is really cool. I love fiber optic lights - I have a few of them from various tech expos :). I second a tutorial :D (when you have time).

 

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That's a great thing to discover. Fiber optic lamps were the rage in the early 70's along with lava lamps. A more detailed tute would be appreciated :)

 

Hum Dhar I was wondering if fire works could be used in your song?

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Very cool. :)

 

There have been some folks trying to get some effects like that rendered out for some time now.

I think they were mostly using sprites.

 

You've just made them very happy.

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