light "texture"

[grim_reaper68]

Hi 

How do you do to have a light with such an appearance?

I'm talking about the flare effect. It seems that it's using a texture, but I don't understand how it's made in 3DSMAX. If someone could explain it to me.

 

[razo+r]

It consists of 3 planes, one on each axis.

Then assign this light texture to it, and set the material property to bano.

 

[grim_reaper68]

I presume that I should use a visibility arg to light it up?

[razo+r]

Correct. Visibility arg for turning the light on/off/dimming. 

[grim_reaper68]

OK. But how about the dimming, I can't add keys or draw a curve while using visibility arg. Only go straight from 0 to 1. I surely missed something.

 

[razo+r]

Here, might help: 

 

[grim_reaper68]

I already saw this video, but the method works only on target spot.

 

 

Edited April 20, 2024 by grim_reaper68

[grim_reaper68]

I finally managed to make it work! After a good observation at the M2000 and the Mirage F1, I saw that the flare wasn't vary in intensity, but grows up... So it's linked to a Argbased Scale. And here is the result. For the light dimming, it's an ArgBased Float on the multiplier of the lightsource...

 

And here ingame

 

 

Edited April 21, 2024 by grim_reaper68