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re: Neon Sign Lettering
Daniel Gochez - May 14, 2004 at 6:15pm
Neon is not hard to "fake" in Lightwave.
It might be harder to find the right kind of font for it. neon letters are made of bent tubes, if you need a 3d movement and the the word is short you could model the whole title by hand, drawing a rail over some image of the text then extruding a disc along the rail.
I'm assuming you know your way around Lightwave..
Once you have your text made of tubes in layout add a gradient to the color channel with incidence angle, making the color at the 90 degree marker a deeper more saturated color and the one at 0 degrees lighter and less saturated. This will make the outer parts of your object render darker and more saturated, wich gives the effect of it having light of it's own, then add a glow to the texture and enable glow in the processing panel.
If you don't need a 3d move, I would not do it in lightwave, I'd use Aura or photoshop.
In Aura: Find the right font (there are tons of free neon looking fonts on the web if you search a bit) use a pastel color, add an outline with a darker more saturated version of the color ("o" key in Aura) to the letters, then add the glow filter.
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re: Neon Sign Lettering Daniel Gochez - May 14, 2004 at 6:15pm
