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Melting Candle

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davdud101:
Hey, guys... so I made this candle and plate by lathing.... I used a little of neodelito's glowing surface tutorial for the flame. Tell me how it is.

3Dgeek11:
That looks great, davdud! :)

davdud101:
Thanks!

CoriDavis:
Ooh! can I see the glow tutorial? I've always wanted to use it

$imon:
Nice!

An Idea to make it a bit more realistic looking (the candle wax looks like plastic a bit now) is adding translucency. Anim8or of course does not have this, but if you look at pictures from lit candles ( http://www.freefoto.com/images/90/18/90_18_85---Christmas-Candle_web.jpg?&k=Christmas+Candle ) it is pretty straight-forward; at the top there is more light shining through the wax, as you go down less light comes through.

Now a way to achieve this in Anim8or I think would be to add an Emissive texture to your candle material : a pretty normal gradient with at the top yellow-ish light shining through, fading to black for the bottom (black = no light emitted)

Not sure if it would work but you can give it a try for extra realism :)

Also, but you know this already, some lighting/shadows would add to the candle-effect ;)

Gd luck & nice going!

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