I’m trying to adapt Colin Litster’s classic nebula tutorial (PDF) to Blender 2.5 alpha 2 and, so far, the gaseous effect isn’t happening. I suspect that maybe the texture isn’t being applied to the mesh properly: the overall glow and alpha parts look right, but it lacks any wispy, nebulous appearance.
Nebula Woes
Okay, with the render emitter option off, it gets better:
Getting better.
Here’s the basic idea. It needs a fair amount of work to look really good, but the concept is there:
Slowly getting better. Metal looks decent. Film part … not so much.
Metal looks decent. Film part ... not so much.
Taking another stab at Blender. This is a test of a small piece of something larger. In this case, I’m trying to make something that looks like old brass. I’ve got quite a bit to figure out. 😀
A test render from a Blender project, using Blender 2.5.
After some additional fiddling, the weathered part is better, but still not quite like brass.
A little more weathered looking, but still not brassy enough.
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