How to create light beams

daveso

How would you create light beams coming from the amber lights? perhaps a bit hazy looking.

richardandtracy

Make them from Aluminium rather than Steel or Concrete.

Ahh.

Wrong type of 'light'...

I'd suggest a narrow cylinder with emmisivity & then put on some bloom.

Regards,

Richard

nemesis10

I think nowadays I have enough vdb's to create a nice hazy beam effect...  The shaders are wrong here but if you reduce the opacity of 
 or  

and added a grainy texture, you would have something very convincing.

Ninefold

If you're trying to make a hazier, god rays-type beam, you do that with some sort of low-density volume. https://www.daz3d.com/iray-light-volume-kit does this with a VDB, but you can make your own out of a regular old cube primitive by turning off thin-walled and playing with the subsurface scattering settings.

daveso

thanks all. i'll give these a try

 

Pax Asteriae

SickleYield has a great tutorial on DeviantART for setting up a basic atmosphere in Iray: https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Creating-Dust-And-Atmosphere-in-Iray-522291773

daveso

Pax Asteriae said:

SickleYield has a great tutorial on DeviantART for setting up a basic atmosphere in Iray: https://www.deviantart.com/sickleyield/journal/Tutorial-Creating-Dust-And-Atmosphere-in-Iray-522291773

thnaks., will check that out