Tutorial: Animating a Laser Beam in Blender

A basic tutorial on creating a laser weapon effect in Blender. Nothing fancy, just playing with Halo materials and Particle systems. If you want the model and/or the Blend file, shoot me an email (make sure to include your return email address, though, because I can't upload *.blend files to YouTube). Thanks!


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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Blender
• 3D
• CG
• CGI
• 3DS
• Lightwave
• Babylon 5
• Starfury
• Particle
• Halo
• Sci fi
• Laser
• Phaser
• Weapon
• Demo
• Tutorial My
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[andtastic1]

just cannot get lights to work like yours..i'm using blender 2.58.lay out is different and can't find the graph to set the energy on the lights..i'm lost..lol

[Kuhnsan]

@andtastic1

Yeah, I haven't upgraded to 2.5x yet. I will eventually, but I just don't want to re-learn the interface:)

[KilleroyCZ]

how did you made the background, and thrusters??

[epikphaylle]

@andtastic1 it was no problem at all :)

[andtastic1]

@epikphaylle thanks for the link buddy, just read that the IPO is now the Dope Sheet in 2.5, looks like i have something new to learn!..lol

[epikphaylle]

wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc­:2.5/Manual/Blender_2.5_Change­s

you might be interested in this page. :)

[epikphaylle]

@andtastic1 Yeah I see your point! I went into 2.5 to do this tut and couldnt find IPO. the F-Curve editor is no help whatsoever. Ill do some research and ill try to get back to you with a solution! :)

[andtastic1]

@epikphaylle thanks for the reply, have solved the light settings, but still cannot find the graph or IPO to manually configure keyframes, it seems much easier to do with pre-2.5 blender.

[epikphaylle]

@andtastic1 well, okay. click on your light, then go to the properties tab, find the icon with a lightbulb with 4 arrows coming out of it. There you set most the light properties. Ive used 2.49 alot but also wanted to figure out the 2.5 ui, so I hope that solved your problem :)

[ciscokitty8]

@Kuhnsan probably a good thing, i went from 2.49 to 2.5, and couldn't even find the lamp buttons...so i went back to 2.49, lol