Comments on: Tesla coil

By: Hristo Velev

Hristo Velev — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:28:05 +0000

Looks good!

By: Saptarshi C

Saptarshi C — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 07:05:13 +0000

came up with this….

http://postimage.org/image/zyrprfs4/

By: Saptarshi C

Saptarshi C — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:20:32 +0000

ok cool.. thanks so much..

i have never used fr.. i’ll give the gi a go.. i’ll post the results of it later

By: Hristo Velev

Hristo Velev — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:46:33 +0000

Easiest way would be wit fr particle lights. Also, you could use a self illuminating material with GI, or some fake lighting with omnies, you can even drive them with TP and the paramblock node.

By: Saptarshi C

Saptarshi C — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 19:59:45 +0000

thanks..that was fast..

i got the answer after tinkering around for a little bit after i posted.. i used small spheres with a bit of size variation.. i like how it looks in comp.

now to the next part.. i tried 2 figure out how 2 get some lighting from the arcs.. the glows in comp liven up the arcs.. but what abt any surrounding areas and objects? do i have 2 use something in rendering or is there any easy way 2 fake it?

By: Hristo Velev

Hristo Velev — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:05:37 +0000

I guess you don’t – you use a lot of small cubes or spheres very close to each other.

By: Saptarshi C

Saptarshi C — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:52:52 +0000

How do u render the particles?

Do u need 2 align them? If u do, how is that done?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:15:23 +0000

I just rehosted them, they are originally done by Andrew Melnychuk. I don’t know about the codecs used – I play them with KMPlayer, it opens them without needing any external codecs installed.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 19:48:42 +0000

This looks like a great tutorial. However I can’t see the video, what codec are you using to encode these files?
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