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HOW TO MAKE LIGHTSABERS 2.0
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JasonA2
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Date Posted:
5/29/07 7:48pm
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RE: HOW TO MAKE LIGHTSABERS 2.0
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Awesome topic, lots of helpful info!
However, the lead post is missing something...it talks about stunt sabers, plumbing supplies, EL sabers, Parks, Random, SaberShop, & Master Replicas
...but it doesn't mention all the people that offer single-LED Luxeon conversions of Force FX sabers (thus making your MR saber much more possible for duelling), as well as some others making custom Luxeon sabers...
for instance
http://www.ultrasabers.com/
http://www.thecustomsabershop.com/
http://www.advanced-light.com/
etc.
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Goddard11
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Date Posted:
6/8/07 11:25pm
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Ok, Here are my hilts I created a while back for my LCC 18 entry, these are before they were painted, but it shows off the lathe work.
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ZenBones
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6/11/07 1:44pm
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Awesome, I would think with the painting, knobs, etc, they could be very nice props.
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StevenBills
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6/20/07 6:45pm
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Booyah.
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Obi-Bob78
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7/18/07 9:53am
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Can I make a lightsaber video using GIMP and Sony Vegas? If so, how?
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Obi-Bob78
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Oops...double post
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Laughing_Cheese
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9/18/07 10:42pm
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Has anyone tried out escrima sticks as an option for blades?
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elemental_fantasy
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9/27/07 6:10pm
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Light sabers vanish in front of white : (
The best I can figure is to create a white solid, mask the layer, give it an appropriate feather, duplicate it, change the duplicates color to your desired saber glow color, expand the mask a lil, and place it underneath the white solid core. Lower the duplicated solids opacity. Tweak it of course until your happy, but thats the only way i figured out how to create a saber in front of a white back round.
Anybody else have any other methods would be greatly help full. Thanks.
AE of course. Also, you can create a light saber that way, just another way to do it, but the only way I know how to not loose it in front of the white, or overexposed back round. 
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Funk-E
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9/28/07 10:58am
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They're supposed to disappear in front of a white background--you can't make white any brighter. If your saber shows up as a color over a pure white background, then it looks fake--that's not what light does.
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elemental_fantasy
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9/28/07 12:16pm
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That's not true, or is, depending on your shots. I notice in one of my fan films that there is an overexposure in the back round in a few shots. All of the sudden the guys light saber blade is gone, it just doesn't look right. It is distracting, like a continuity break, or like, oops who forgot to finish those shots. When the blade disappears, it break's the suspension of disbelief. Even in the star wars movies, there are several shots in which light sabers should disappear but don't for the very same reason.
As I said, if you tweak the adjustments correct. Besides, when you watch a light saber fight, the last thing you should think of is, hey, light cant bend, light sabers aren't real, ect. ect.
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Funk-E
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9/28/07 3:27pm
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Simple fact here:
You're wrong. Check out whenever there's a saber ignited over white in the movies, you'll see that you can't see the blade's color. It might not FEEL right to you, but it IS right--trust me, if you adjust it so that you can see the color over white, then the saber will just look painted on the frame--that's bad compositing, and again, that's not what light does. You can't make white brighter.
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elemental_fantasy
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Date Posted:
9/28/07 4:20pm
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No, I see what you are saying Funk-E, I understand it and agree with it, but light cant bend either can it?
I am simply saying that I need to see the saber blade in front of the over exposed back round for it to seem natural.
In case you didn't notice, thats why I was saying to tweak the settings until your satisfied, if you cant composite that for a correct visual image, then thats your issue. No disrespect. But it seems to blend and work great for me. I dont know how that makes me wrong, I am currently going through the process, are you???
If you are and are having compositing problems, I can help.
In all fairness, you are arguing a lost point, don't try and add logic to something that works well to keep the suspension of disbelief up. Again, bigger issues here, theres no sound in space, but when we see it and hear it, it feels natural, light cant bend, but it does in a light saber. Movies are about feelings, not too often about the logic behind them, imho.
Funk-E..... you can change whites color glow, the method I use, helps to define the glow so it looks natural, not raise the brightness.
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Funk-E
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Date Posted:
9/28/07 7:04pm
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This is an old argument, and seems to be a lost cause. Have crappy-looking glows for all I care, I'm just trying to give you a friendly lesson in good compositing: The object is to try and make things look real. Of course light can't bend into a blade shape in real life, but we're working inside an internal logic here. If the lightsaber's glow is an in-camera effect, as almost all the effects in the movies and explanations of how a lightsaber works seem to illustrate, then your saber is going to disappear on a white background, and that's just the way it is, discussion over. Try checking out one of the other nine billion threads on this topic.
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elemental_fantasy
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9/29/07 12:39am
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You seemed to have missed my point. But thanks for the advice in compositing. Moving on.
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Funk-E
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Date Posted:
9/29/07 8:52am
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What's your point, exactly?
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