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sparten gage · 9th April 2012, 11:07 PM

I'm trying to make holographic weapons for my characters and i was wondering how to make the holographic part turn on and off. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

Starbase1 · 10th April 2012, 04:01 AM

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Originally Posted by sparten gage

I'm trying to make holographic weapons for my characters and i was wondering how to make the holographic part turn on and off. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

I'm not at all clear on what you are trying to do here...

What do you mean by a holographic weapon part?

hal · 10th April 2012, 04:34 AM

More information would be useful to answer the question. I see from your profile you use After Effects, the way I would make a hologram would be to render it out separate from the scene and composite it together in AE. This way you can add effects to the hologram and have greater control of the look and feel of it in the scene.

3D_CG · 10th April 2012, 09:57 AM

there was a discussion of this on the newtek forum

colbs · 10th April 2012, 10:30 AM

he wants to know how to make that holographic device fade in and fade out like its being turned on/off

3D_CG · 10th April 2012, 11:00 AM

there is a tread on that same thing at newtek forms....
pretty cool to

sparten gage · 10th April 2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by hal

More information would be useful to answer the question. I see from your profile you use After Effects, the way I would make a hologram would be to render it out separate from the scene and composite it together in AE. This way you can add effects to the hologram and have greater control of the look and feel of it in the scene.

i use after effects sometimes but i only have access to it at school.

this is what it looks like (i know it sucks) i want to turn it on and off (like the holograms from mass effect 2)

sparten gage · 10th April 2012, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by 3D_CG

there is a tread on that same thing at newtek forms....
pretty cool to

where can you link?

Starbase1 · 10th April 2012, 03:13 PM

If you are doing it in Lightwave, object / properties / disolve %ge.

This will let you fade it in and out.

Woody · 10th April 2012, 05:07 PM

You're definitely going to want illumination modulated by incidence falloff, like an x-ray effect. 100% transparent, 0% diffuse. Probably a little glow would be good, but easy enough to add in post. You can keyframe the gradient or the illumation amount, either way would work.

9th April 2012, 11:07 PM	#1
sparten gage Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 46	Weapons - holo-weapons I'm trying to make holographic weapons for my characters and i was wondering how to make the holographic part turn on and off. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

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hal Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: The Highlands of NY Posts: 419	More information would be useful to answer the question. I see from your profile you use After Effects, the way I would make a hologram would be to render it out separate from the scene and composite it together in AE. This way you can add effects to the hologram and have greater control of the look and feel of it in the scene.
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Woody Administrator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Foundation 3D Posts: 2,881	You're definitely going to want illumination modulated by incidence falloff, like an x-ray effect. 100% transparent, 0% diffuse. Probably a little glow would be good, but easy enough to add in post. You can keyframe the gradient or the illumation amount, either way would work.
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