Comments on: Rendering a Light Saber

By: shadowbladeF22

shadowbladeF22 — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:02:39 +0000

Hey, I was able to fix my problem eventually, what I did was add a mask over the blur layer, so that you were seeing the white blade, and then behind it was the glowing effect. that wasn’t a perfect fix but it still looked good in the end. If you want i can post my nodes, but its a little complex because i used two different saber colors.

By: krejcaa

krejcaa — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 22:22:59 +0000

hello guyz… I got the same problem as shadowbladef22 … At first everything was okay, then I added some lights and rendered it…and the result = inverted colors.. so have u solved it somehow please? thank you very much

By: shadowbladeF22

shadowbladeF22 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:26:21 +0000

Sure, the set-up thus far is
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2pwmEGnlWUdX2I4SnhOZWF3Ulk
sorry for the format, that was the easiest way I could think to share it.

By: Jonathan Williamson

Jonathan Williamson — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:14:34 +0000

Hi there, could you share a screenshot of your node setup and result? Then I should be able to help you out

By: shadowbladeF22

shadowbladeF22 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:00:10 +0000

I have tried to follow this tutorial, but no matter what I do the end result is always inverted, the blur is white and the blade is the color that I add using the RGB value, any Ideas on what I am doing wrong?

By: Jonathan Williamson

Jonathan Williamson — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:44:31 +0000

Certainly! You can use a shadeless node setup to achieve the effect: http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/03/09/making-shadeless-materials-cycles-in-blender/

By: Darth_Gimp

Darth_Gimp — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:44:43 +0000

Johnathan,

I’ve got my model and I’ve rendered it in Cycles. This uses Blender internal. Is there a way to render the blade like this in Cycles?

By: C. Jones

C. Jones — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:57:18 +0000

Hi, I am wondering how you would reflect the blade of the light saber. I have a robot holding a lightsaber and am wondering how to make the glow show in the reflections.

Thanks

By: M Yount

M Yount — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:34:14 +0000

I was able to do it on 2.49b. Had the following problems.

1. light saber has to be two objects.
2. assign both objects “Pass Index” in (F7) “Object and Links”.
2. indexed node trees (F10) “Render Layers” “Inde” button.
3. (F10) “Anim” “Do Composite” must be set for rendering.

I see I need to do the update python scripts tutorial so I can update scripts and use 2.5.

By: Langolier

Langolier — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:55:33 +0000

Great tutorial. It helps me very much for understanding compositing. I tryed to apply this for my own purposes… but… So I have a question. Instead of saber blade i use text “MY WEB SITE” for example. This text looks very nice with neon glowing effect, but i can’t save this with transparent background. I tryed to save in .png with rgba.. and received transparent background but without glowing effect. Help me please. What should i do to save Saber/text with neon glowing effect and on transparent background? Is it possible? i need it for my website.