Planetary Rings in Lightwave

[gpdesigner]

Hello Lightwavers,
I made this tutorial a while back and posted it on LWG forum,
but seeing how I am making this my new home I want to put the link here.
Try the tute, if you use it let me know I would like to see the work.
Peace
gp

http://www.graphicproduction.org/tut...asteroids.html

[fluxfire]

I think i will use that on a planet or 2 when i do some animation

[gpdesigner]

Awesomeness . . . I would like to see what you come up with PM me incase I miss the thread. good luck with the project . . .
lw rocks
gp

[JeffrySG]

That looks very cool GP! If I end up using it for anything I'll let you know! Thanks for sharing that with us here!

[Aceman]

Thanks for posting the tutorial and supporting our community!

Aceman

[gpdesigner]

Thanks gentalmen, at first I didn't think anyone was trying the tutorial as I posted it almost a year ago . . . but if it helps someone even in the smallest bit . . it was worth it . . .
ciao
gp

[fluxfire]

Well i plan on using this for a fighter fight scene in a video i plan on making in the future.

gpdesigner

at first I didn't think anyone was trying the tutorial as I posted it almost a year ago

Had i had LW a yr ago i would have used it then too

[Armondikov]

If by chance you came to this page by way of an outside link, You can find the first part of this Tutorial . . . . HERE

If only all tutorials and web pages had such useful things on them. Nice touch :P

Anyway, I'm trying it now. You mention cleaning the edges up manuallly, but you can get a cleaner edge by using a cylinder and booleaning them away, if you want a rougher edge you could use the Jitter tool to re-randomise it, or just change the size of the cylinder you use to boolean the points.

And of course, rather than repeat the steps to make a second ring(or third, fourth etc), you can just copy and paste, and use resizing tools with radial falloff to fine tune.

EDIT: Tried it and got this. The planet comes from another tutorial but I've completely forgot where. The next step to make it better, it to make more rings with more points in each, and vary the base colour and density across them.

EDIT2: You can set the basic colour of the hypervoxel surface to a gradient with the parament "distance from" and set it as your central planet (or even the rings since the pivot point should be in the middle). The picture is an extreme and not well thought out version

(apologies if this counts as hi-jacking)

[gpdesigner]

*sniffle* that looks so pretty . . . .

No hi-jack at all Armondikov . . . glad to see someone having fun. No probs man . .
like I said in the tute, what I did was a basic concept so long as people understood the basics, they could modify procedures at will.
@ fluxfire . . . Can't wait to see the video . . .
gp

[Taranis]

cool .. while i have only experimented with hypervoxels can you give them a shine or refections to catch the sun etc ..