[Rick Morton]

OK. I’ll give that a try. Not sure how to post a project.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks. I’ll try that. I think I did, but the colored glass didn’t seem to affect the light. How transparent should I make the glass?
For the other problem, I created a spotlight. Made it volumetric and added dust. When I render, I see the light beam coming to the floor with dust. I wanted three, so I just copied that light and pasted twice. The volumetric and dust do not show up on the pasted lights, even tho’ they show in the parameters.

[Rick Morton]

You could probably do this in After Effects with the Video Copilot SABER plug-in.
I did a similar thing with a sword. Worked great.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks to all. However… seems a bit over my head.
Jim… yes, I have the project but not sure how I would upload to you.
I’ve switched gears and trying a different way to show the same concept.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks, I’ll try that. But it seems to happen with any camera I’m using.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks. Unfortunately, not knowing that, I dumped the file and started over with PNG images instead. So far so good. That’s really good to know, though!

[Rick Morton]

Thanks! That did it! What a simple fix!

[Rick Morton]

Thanks. I tried fooling with those settings and it seems to have worked. Not getting the flyaways and the capsules seem to be on the floor again. Do you know what would make them stay off the floor like that? Just enough so you can tell they’re not actually ON the floor, but just above it. ???

[Rick Morton]

That was it. Thanks.

[Rick Morton]

Thanks! That was it. I did not have the effector in the last. Previously, I must have had the Cloner selected but didn’t even realize that was important. Fixed.

Shader is showing up now. ??? Oh well!

Thanks again.