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  • shere of lights

    Posted by Mike.holmes on August 28, 2006 at 3:31 am

    Hey guys I’m want to find out/learn how to make a sphere of many lights and have them spin around and also have the circumference of the sphere be able to expand and then contract. I only have after effect 6.5 pro. No 3d programmes. If some one could point me to a tut. That would be very helpful.

    Mike.holmes replied 19 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Todd Gillespie

    August 28, 2006 at 4:27 pm

    Hi Mike,

    I’m not sure what you are going for????
    ‘lights’ can mean a lot of different things. Did you want it to look like a bunch of small ‘dots’ of light that can spin and move independantly? (kind of like if you were looking at a LED flashlight) Or do you want the ‘lights’ to move around and have the light shine on a surface/object? Or..???

    If it’s dots, it’s pretty straightforward. If you need the light to shine onto something-a little trickier.

    Either way, a good starting point will be Digital Anarchy’s 3D assistants. It will take whatever you give it-lights, pictures, balls, etc.- and can duplicate it to make a sphere, box, etc.

    https://www.digitalanarchy.com/3Dassist/3Dassist_tutes.html#

    Look at the ‘Spheriod Creator’ tutorial.

    Cheers,

    Todd at UCSB
    Television Production

  • Mike.holmes

    August 29, 2006 at 8:42 am

    yeah man! thank you so much that’s just what i was wanting!

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