just some fun.., what kind of light did I use and how did I do it?? there is one light in the scene (except for an ambient light to light the rig)

Attached Thumbnails

---

take it easy and life will be easy

My guess would be spot light with fog turned on.

Here's my quick effort.....

---

Click here to visit my site

can we see the batman symbol in the next version?

---

Examples of bTraffic - a traffic animation tool for Maya
bFlocking - a tool for Maya 8.5+ to generate flocking and swarming behaviours
Jan/Feb Challenge 2007 Entry and W.I.P
May/Jun Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Mar/Apr Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Jan/Feb Challenge 2006 Entry and W.I.P
Nov/Dec Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Sep/Oct Challenge 2005 Entry and W.I.P
Jul/Aug Challenge 2005 Entry
www.flash-fx.net

matt you win a trip around the world and $10,000.., just kidding

a spot light with the region decay tweaked and yes, fog! (some MIGHT have thought it an area light!)

I dont know about batman but i tried to get dust floating through it but havent worked it out yet.., I saw a tut on this on the net a few days ago and thought Id give it a go from memory.., but forgot how the dust is done??

batman's next...

---

take it easy and life will be easy

this is what I wanted., fog intensity mapped with 3D granite texture.

Attached Thumbnails

---

take it easy and life will be easy

spot light (2) controlled by decay regions

Attached Thumbnails

---

take it easy and life will be easy

Awwww man, I could do with $10,000 (even if they were Aussie Dollars!).

Si, you got me to thinking about the bat signal so as a diversion from my final year project here's what I came up with....

---

Click here to visit my site

looks great, how did you do it?

---

take it easy and life will be easy

no problem Matt, I think Ive worked it out??

Attached Thumbnails

---

take it easy and life will be easy

Well done Mirek.

There are a couple of ways to get the same result, I used a transparency in front of the spotlight and turned on raytrace shadows (see attached), alternatively I could have projected the symbol from the light (gobo) by attaching the image to it's intensity attribute.

Attached Thumbnails

---

Click here to visit my site

i mapped it to the intensity..,

---

take it easy and life will be easy

mistake, i mapped the colour. those are good tips Matt, thanks, though looking at it now I think its the second spot light, the intenser one is treating it(the bat image, bat black on white) like a shadow? giving the light that cut look? the softer light, as colour.

---

take it easy and life will be easy

this what i mean

Attached Thumbnails

---

take it easy and life will be easy

I'm not entirely sure that I follow Mirek,

can you tell me what the lights in your scene are for. I only used one light for the bat symbol render.

When lights cross paths the output is always intensified (light or effect). you may know this already but I've made a quick illustration to show it anyway.

Cheers.

Attached Thumbnails

---

Click here to visit my site

sure, I made a separate spotlight to map the 3D texture, the granite texture and turned off all the lightlinking, everything, when I mapped the batsignal I didnt turn off the linking for that, it looks like its being teated as a shadow?? Im not sure? the batsignal is the correct 'hue' with the less intense light, its mapped to the colour, but the bat signal is cutting off the light from the second spot light, thats what it looks like.., yes i know its not plugged into it.., but thats what it looks like, ??

any clues, thats why I put up the rig?

---

take it easy and life will be easy