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Thread: How to make that effect of light emitting from text?

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    here goes:

    I need to make light emit from a text. Imagine a black background and from it the word let's say LIGHT cut out. Behind that bground is a light source and the light comes out only through the letters towards the viewer widening in perspective


    something like this


    light source.........0
    ......................./.\
    ....................../...\
    bground -------------------
    with "light"......./......\
    text cutout ..../........\

    viewer.................0

    (ignore the dots. the "/" and "\" are rays of light)

    does this make any sense?

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    I forgot to mention

    I need it as an image, done in photoshop

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    Like this?


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    you mean like a zoom radial blur

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    holographic god Vatcher's Avatar
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    this would be done so much easier in 3ds max...

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    mx_kid - exactly like that, only the light rays should be more natural
    how did you do it?


    vatcher - really? maybe I could consider 3dsmax, it's just that I never thought of it
    but for now, only photoshop


    [Edited by 403 on 09-30-2002 at 09:37 AM]

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    hey mx_kid, how about that action you told me about?

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    Pushy huh?
    Here ya go
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    Originally posted by Vatcher
    this would be done so much easier in 3ds max...
    i dunno, if you were just working in photoshop and you didnt need exact lighting based realistically on the text, photoshop would be fine.. (and 3ds max is expensive)

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    Originally posted by mx_kid
    Pushy huh?
    Here ya go
    hehe I thought you forgot about it

    will check it out today thx

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    No problem.. lemme know if I did it wrong, never made one before

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    will do, cheers

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