Lasers

Who doesn't love lasers ?

Me :(

So you can create lasers in 3D max you simply get a metrial apply a texture with a camera filter attacked it. attach a glow effect to it and voilá laser beam done. Unfortunately for me i was struggling with lighting so i had to take a different approche. So i decided humm what makes good laser beams... Adobe After Effects with the" light saber V2" plug in by video copilot (Developed by Andrew Craymer) So i opened up after effects and installed plug in draped out the plugin onto the solid i created. (ctrl-Y) then set the stop watches on start point and end point for the light saber and animated the movement in there every frame i drag the light saber a little bit further along the path. This when i played it back created the illusion of the gun firing.