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Light Saber Materials Help

KeithHKeithH Posts: 338
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The materials for the light saber are not working correct for me. What shows in the preview windows is not what is shown when it renders.

Any help please.

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  • KeithHKeithH Posts: 338

    Here is the one rendered. All the color in the saber is gone.

    LightSaber_0001.png
    3840 x 2160 - 3M
  • KeithHKeithH Posts: 338

    It is not just the blue - it is all of them except the red

    the red will show red highlights on everything but the saber will be organge instead of red.

    thank you in advanced 

  • felisfelis Posts: 6,079

    Are you rendering in Iray or 3DL? And does the material match that?

  • nightwolf1982nightwolf1982 Posts: 1,238

    Which Lightsaber?  diferent props have different material setups for the blade.

  • RafmerRafmer Posts: 564
    edited August 2019

    Make sure you have the Bloom filter ON, and also use some kind of environment, even an HDR will be enough, for the bloom to show.

    Post edited by Rafmer on
  • outrider42outrider42 Posts: 3,679

    In an open environment it will be hard to see the light effect properly. Like Ramfer said, you need something behind it. And bloom is the key. Lightsabers are actually 2 surfaces and they are different colors. Take a look a look at the movies, and you will see the inner core is nearly white for all sabers. It is only the outer core and bloom that reveal the full color. Aeon Soul made some nice free lightsabers, though they are more optimized for older versions of Daz Iray, they are a start.

  • talidesadetalidesade Posts: 71

    Here's my bloom settings, the threshold should be 10,000. The last 0 got cut off. I changed the colors, too. You can see the result in the pic.

    I made the red and blue material presets a freebie for May 4th last year.

    https://www.deviantart.com/talidesade/art/My-Iray-Presets-for-Aeon-Soul-Lightsabers-743381933

    With these bloom settings and my preset, they should look just like the pic. You can use these presets as a basis for other colors.

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,998
    edited August 2019
    keith_8acb321bf5 said:

    The materials for the light saber are not working correct for me. What shows in the preview windows is not what is shown when it renders.

    Any help please.

    Hey Keith, sorry for the late reply.

     

    As its been stated by a few already, please make sure you have turned bloom on by using one of the 6 included presets.  1 for the nearest and 6 for the furthest.

    Also, please make sure you are not using a transparent background.  In order for the bloom to be seen, Iray needs something as a back ground.

     

    Thank you Keith for buying my set! :D

    Post edited by Mattymanx on
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