CompuServe Messages

/* I' TRIYNG TO MAKE AN ANIMATED LIGHTNING SCENE BUT CAN'T GET A GOOD RESULT; I WAS TRIYNG WITH MATERIAL MORPHINGS (FROM INVISIBEL TO A WHITE SELF ILUMINATET MATERIAL) within a few frames. AS I CAN'T GET A SADISFIYNG RESULT I WAS WUNDERING IF THER IS AN IPAS TO DO THIS? OR DO YOU KNOW A GOOD WAY TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM? */ Note #1: turn your CAPS LOCK button off. Caputalized messages usually indicated yelling. Note #2: I've seen some very effective lighting achieved by rendering (under the non-lightening) the entire scene, and then going back to certain frames in the rendering and doing single frame rendering with a spotlight that is blindingly bright (or even an omni light, although well-pronounced shadows really makes the effect come alive). I generate tons of single frames as TGA files before the actual compile into a movie, and swapping out like this a few "bright" frames is very quick. You could also keyframe certain spots at very high brightness if you wanted to do the whole thing in one shot. -dave