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# 1 12-05-2006 , 03:34 PM

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Hi Guys,

I'm currently working on a animation which involves a guy firing a big gun, but I have no idea how to make a muzzle flash.
It could be in an easy way by putting a transparent fire texture onto a plane, then animate the plane appearing and disappearing, but again I have no idea on how to do this on the time line.
If anyone has any ideas or knows how to make a muzzle flash, I'll be grateful if you let me know.

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# 2 12-05-2006 , 08:34 PM

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well, you could keyframe a glow effect, maybe a sphere with glow on and "hide source". and you can keframe the glow.

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# 3 12-05-2006 , 11:01 PM

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alpha mapped planes are used in doom 3......

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# 4 13-05-2006 , 02:51 AM

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I haven't used them before, so I may be way off the mark, but I would have thought that you could make the flash using particles...

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# 5 13-05-2006 , 12:09 PM

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I suggested glow cuz it would be the easiest method.

Particles like smoke, fire, etc would make the most realistic way, but you wouldn't probably use many for a game.

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# 6 13-05-2006 , 02:45 PM

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have a look at this

https://www.quantumpetshop.com/tutorials/guns.asp

might be useful to u

Now at SMU doing BSc 3D Computer Animation so its hard to get on here
My wire render tut https://forum.simplymaya.com/showthre...threadid=20973

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# 7 15-05-2006 , 02:24 PM

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Thanks Guys,

Thanks to you, I have a better idea of how to execute a muzzle flash in my animation.
As soon as I get my project and presentations out of the way I will post up my fist character animation movie.

Cheers

Oh by the way here’s a poster of my characters in my animation.
Let me know what you think of it?

Cheers

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# 8 15-05-2006 , 03:10 PM

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pretty good, but the textures look a bit fuzzy... are they jpg's? if so use tga's.... if not, just increase the resolution.... otherwise they are good.

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