Making Lasers for ships - Help Please

jf3000 · April 22nd, 2006, 09:48 AM

I was wondering why there arent any tutorials for downloading?

I am trying to master the lasers that come out of the ships and with several attempts, its a slow process.

I am using Lightwave 8.0 and have been using the particles etc to make my laser.

If anyone has any tutorials on this, please would you let me know.

Thank you.

Jf3000

gmd3d · April 22nd, 2006, 01:29 PM

Try these

http://www.lwg3d.com/forums/showthre...ghlight=lasers

http://www.lwg3d.com/forums/showthre...t=dave+jerrard

http://members.shaw.ca/lightwavetutorials/Main_Menu.htm

http://www.lwg3d.org/forums/showthre...ghlight=lasers

:colwar:

I hope these help you some ..

jf3000 · April 23rd, 2006, 12:57 AM

The first 2 websites dont exsist, but.... Thank you for the others, very helpful, much oblidged.

gmd3d · April 23rd, 2006, 03:46 AM

ihave to recheck my old links .. I may have saved those old Laser tutions .. If I have I will repost them here .

jf3000 · April 23rd, 2006, 04:50 AM

Thank you much appreciated.

jf3000 · April 23rd, 2006, 05:24 AM

Got the model from www.eon3d.com, and well its a slow process but added my own lasers :

Have a small render to follow, please note im a beginner and still learning.

Crusader · April 23rd, 2006, 07:43 AM

Anybody know of some trueSpace compatible tutorials? in other words, something very general and generic that would work across most software packages? I have tried some myself but they look more like plasma bolts than lasers... [will post image link later]

Darrell Lawrence · April 23rd, 2006, 08:36 AM

Taranis, lemme know if you have those saved. If so, I'll add them into the new upcoming tutorial section.

gmd3d · April 23rd, 2006, 08:45 AM

I located a laser lession by Dave Jerrard in pdf format on my HD .
PM me you e-mail address and I will send it to you

or perhaps I can send to warrior and it can be hosted here?

Crusader I don't know of any TS lessions but perhaps our new Evil Mod

can help as he is a TS user

but I have a look see

gmd3d · April 23rd, 2006, 08:56 AM

I also located an Explosion lession in PDF that I can send.. I may have more that I can dig out ..

and one on Jet Engines

Darrell Lawrence · April 23rd, 2006, 09:38 AM

T, sounds great. Yes, get them to me to add

jf3000 · April 23rd, 2006, 10:56 AM

Okay I will wait til they have been added to the tutorial section, thanks everyone.

gmd3d · April 23rd, 2006, 11:41 AM

I have sent them ....... the Laser Lession and the Explosion's lesson and for added bonus the thruster and Exhaust lession.

The first two are by Dave Jerrard and the last is by Erich Gebauer.

Darrell Lawrence · April 23rd, 2006, 12:33 PM

Cool

They'll be waiting for me when I gt home from work then.

evil_genius_180 · April 23rd, 2006, 02:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crusader

Anybody know of some trueSpace compatible tutorials? in other words, something very general and generic that would work across most software packages? I have tried some myself but they look more like plasma bolts than lasers... [will post image link later]

What verison of TS are you using?

Darrell Lawrence · April 23rd, 2006, 05:16 PM

I'm still assembling the various tutorials I have on my HD, but in the meantime, here are the three Taranis (our hero!) provided- http://www.3dgladiators.net/tutorials/

gmd3d · April 24th, 2006, 12:52 AM

Glad to be of service

.. If I locate more I will send them on .

Crusader · September 1st, 2006, 05:58 AM

Hi there guys...

evil_genius_180, I'm using trueSpace 5.2 [haven't saved enough to upgrade to 6 or 7 yet]

Also checking out the tutorials, thanks Taranis...

gmd3d · September 1st, 2006, 07:54 AM

No Problem

I like to see what you can do.. I remember have the same problem myself.....

gmd3d · September 1st, 2006, 08:01 AM

Bty is it for animations or for picture renders?

evil_genius_180 · September 1st, 2006, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crusader

Hi there guys...

evil_genius_180, I'm using trueSpace 5.2 [haven't saved enough to upgrade to 6 or 7 yet]

There's nothing wrong with that, I use tS 4.2.

BTW, I heard 7 has a lot of issues, one of which being that it requires a computer with 3 or 4 gigs of RAM to run smoothly. And, it apparently isn't as nice as earlier versions. One of these days I'm going to scrape some change together and get a new computer and tS 6.6, but I'm not touching 7.

Crusader · September 2nd, 2006, 01:22 AM

Taranis, I tried to download those PDF files but all of them seems to be corrupted after download and I try to open them. Did anybody else have any problems with them? I REALLY would like to see those, aren't they on a webpade somewhere? Btw. Also had a look at your webpage and the images looks great

The images are for stills, haven't dabbled in animations yet [waiting to get 6.6 first]

evil_genius_180, thanks for the heads up, haven't read much about seven although I did hear that 6.6 is good so that's what'll i'll be aiming at too, cheaper as well...

gmd3d · September 2nd, 2006, 01:34 AM

I check out the tuts

gmd3d · September 2nd, 2006, 01:44 AM

Yep I am getting the same thing .. I will see about getting you the web page ......... I will also try to relocate the pdf file and send them to Warrior again

Crusader · September 2nd, 2006, 01:45 AM

okay... are any other such tutorials on the web somewhere that anybody knows about?

gmd3d · September 2nd, 2006, 01:51 AM

Ok I relaocate the pdf files on my HD... if you want to send me your e-mail address I send the directly to you .. if or wait untill Warrior can upload them again

gmd3d · September 2nd, 2006, 02:02 AM

Here is a page http://www.lwg3d.com/forums/showthre...t=dave+jerrard you can down load the direct

Crusader · September 2nd, 2006, 02:13 AM

Yipppeeeee! DL'd one and it worked, checking the others... are those the same ones that was in the thread? don't see the exhaust trail one?

gmd3d · September 2nd, 2006, 02:18 AM

thats cool, I was just about to mial them to you .... they are the same yes.....

gmd3d · September 5th, 2006, 04:15 AM

I have resent the lessions to Warrior and have included the exhaust lession ..... they are of course in Lightwave.