6 MAY 2023:
- It took all week and lots of experimentation, but I finally made a lightning effect for the "stun gun"!
- Below you can see my Embergen node tree for it:
- I always seem to encounter this problem -- rendering bloom. The bloom effect with the lightning looks amazing, but trying to capture it in the final render is elusive if not impossible. So I took the animations to Aseprite:
Here are the Aseprite notes I took on how add some Alpha while still retaining the bloom effect of the original image:
Open your first image in Aseprite and select "Agree" for "load the following files as an animation."
Click the Layer "Continuous" button in the timeline (links all frames together for changes) (rightmost arrow in above pic)
Click the lock button to upper left of colors to unlock color editing. (leftmost arrow in above pic)
Click down arrow and sort by brightness (or whatever)
Select Sprite --> Color Mode --> Indexed
Use eyedropper tool and click on a color
Change Alpha value (below the color rainbow, not the two color bars below it (middle arrow in above pic)
QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
"Hide not your talents, they for Use were made. What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?" -- Benjamin Franklin
Thanks for reading and have a great rest of your week!