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Subject: How to render hot plasma? Subject: LED panel point lights are visible in specular reflections Subject: Soft Shadow Radius for Sun, Spot, Point Lights IN DEPTH Fletch, Thank you for reminding me about those threads. Good advice and valuable tips. :rspkt: Unfortunately, they don't exactly ad...

Basically what I want to do is create a shell, make the exterior color a light emitter, make the interior face transparent, and put a point light inside so that the point light is providing the light for the scene, but the Light Emitter surface of the shell makes provides a visible source for the li...

Cathryn, The artists at SCF or Deviantart would probably be more helpful as there are just more people there that do sci-fi I hope others here that do sci-fi will pipe in, but I'm just saying... I would start by studying my favorite sci-fi art to find the images I like, then I would try to recreate...

...on a good "sci-fi" wall panel and/or hull texture for models. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know. 649ShipHull7.jpg I am not looking for a source of downloadable textures. Already got those, and have already tired of the dearth of anything but Manga style hull-plating, mainly be...

Awesome plugin. I am going to be testing this out. Thank you for sharing the link.
Cathryn

Another option is to use your background photo in the light and sky options as Set Background. I'm not sure if that option would work for you, though, as I am uncertain if there is a way to easily scale the background visible through window to match reality. Hope this helps. SwordandGlass on table e...

FWIW, you might want to use fredo6's round corners plugin in sketchup(available at the sketchucation plugins forum). Some of the scenes have razor sharp lines on the corners / edges of walls, and other items. That can detract from the realism, in some cases. It adds to the polycount, but not too bad...

:lol: it is comforting to know it happens to you guys too....!! ....I find the busier I get, the less likely I am to take notes, or if I take notes I don't file them with my other notes, or scribble them down quickly on spare pieces of paper......or worse still, I write them down so quickly I can't...

Thank you so much, Fletch! I have to model a planet for someone, and this issue has been driving me crazy, trying to figure out how to do this.

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