Babylon 5: Fire!
 

More Vorly firing pics.

http://www.3dgladiators.net/gallery/...on_fighter.jpg

http://www.3dgladiators.net/gallery/...transport1.jpg

http://www.3dgladiators.net/gallery/..._transport.jpg

AWESOME! You learned how to do lightning!!!!

You should post these over at Beyond Babylon/B5MG :)

Good stuff! Vorlon ships look so much better when they are getting ready to blast someone :D

Man, you're rendering the HELL out of that thing, aren't you?

I like it...

Rick, different ships than the other thread. The other thread is a Mothership. The first one here is a fighter, and the last two are transports.

The fighter and transport look similar, but it you look closer you'll see they're not the same :)

Updated the image links.

Wow...thats lag between posts :)

Any changes between the old links and new links?

Very nice.

how to do lightning in photoshop
 

this will work for any version of photoshop. I use photoshop 5.0... It works best with low res (72dpi) files

1. Create a new layer of black and white, fill it with the clouds filter

2. Render 'difference clouds' filter

3. Solarise filter

4. Edit - adjust - auto levels

5. Invert the image (ctrl-i)

6. edit - adjust - levels. Move the middle slider to the right until the blur of the white begins to disappear. Adjust to suit yourself.

7. Select a suitable selection of "lightning" and cut it out. paste into your image as a new layer and change the layer mode to screen to get rid of the black

8. Edit - adjust - colour balance and make it whatever colour you like....

ta -dahhhh!

This is what I did to make the lightning in this image (it's an oldie but a goodie now)

http://sean.sevspace.com/photoshop/s...in_exalted.jpg

cheers
Sean

I'll have to try that :)