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3D Studio Max
Promo problem
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Doug 17 posts06 Apr 2006I am attempting to crate a promo, and i want to do like a wheel of fortune type board, y know the contestant says the word and the box with the letter lights up...
This is my attempt but, first question is there a better way to do it...
(what I did was create a box, with 28 small boxes inside, flipped the normals of the small boxes, created text of the sentence then attempted to just animate turning on and off and on omni lights inside the small boxes in a non linear order...)
if there is not a better way to do this (which there should be) what would be an effective way of lighing the boxes...
(and also what would be the best way to light the scene?)
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20 Apr 2006one other idea would be to use bitmaps on the boxes. like, if you have a box with "B" on it, make a bitmap that has the "B" all black and the surrounding area white. use this in the self-illumination slot. if the BG color you've used behind your B on the actual diffuse map is a REALLY light color, like white or a slightly yellowish white, it will light up nicely.
in fact, using this technique with Richard's specualr bloom tutorial in the Tutorials thread might look pretty cool!
if you've already finished this image, post it so we can check it out!
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