Dalek Lights Test

[MrClassicDoctorWho]

movie daleks for the win

[SJ9001]

"EX-TER-MIN-ATE... YOU!"

[pidgeonsandpiearetas]

Thanks!

[miniclipplay]

good model

[pidgeonsandpiearetas]

Thanks

[android65mar]

I had thought that morph targets might work but couldn't seem to get it to morph materials, I therefore assumed that you could only morph shapes on point editor. So the only way I have been able to make the lights flash so far is by making an alternate set of lights that become visible and then invisible on scene editor or as in the case of the clip I am uploading at the moment by making literally dozens of little films with the brightness level of the material changing from clip to clip.

[pidgeonsandpiearetas]

You can't change materials in morph targets, I made two sets of lights and switched them around as a morph target, one inside the other and vice-versa.

Nice film by the way

[android65mar]

Cheers. Hopefully I'll be uploading some more soon, but as you no doubt know animating is a long and tedious process...

[android65mar]

Interesting, I've also been using anim8 to produce flashing lights and have had a devil of a job getting it right. How did you manage?

[pidgeonsandpiearetas]

It actually uses morph targets, not lights.

There are two sets of lights, one which is the darker dull colour, the other is a colour with very high ambiance and diffuse. There is a morph target of the ambient ones being bigger and around the dull ones, while the normal is with them small and inside the dull ones. Then I have the morph targets set set to each other on the final time line so you don't see anything apart from the sudden flashes.