Nox's Bellicose Review

[Ultoria Kade]

You might say....I don't have the buns to do Leia.

Ha. Hahaha. I'd reply with something clever, but buns jokes are pretty hard to top.

[Darth Logos]

Look, Venturous.  I made you a thing.

Nox, have you played around with the Pulse intervals yet?

[Noctis]

That's what makes it "shimmer" like it does in the vid.

[Darth Logos]

That's what makes it "shimmer" like it does in the vid.

So you prefer the "compressed" look?

[Noctis]

So you prefer the "compressed" look?

I dig the flickering effect the most, I think.

[Nowhere]

man do i want an emerald saber. i want that unstable crystal look SO bad!

[Darth Logos]

I dig the flickering effect the most, I think.

Cool. I actually haven't played with the compresses look, yet. My preference if for a slower, "unstable" look.

man do i want an emerald saber. i want that unstable crystal look SO bad!

Yes you do. Keep on saving.

[arklore70]

Great review and the follow on posts are very informative Nox.  

You stated you ahve large hands, but do you know off hand what your glove size is?
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Ark

[Sypho Ruut]

Oh, jsut a quickie, if you want an unstable look, i'd actually recommend your emerald flicker settings not be even.
 Usually, they end up at 0.04, 0.04   or 0.02, 0.02,   but mixing and matching works pretty well. usually if the brighter setting is longer, it looks compressed, if it's shorter, you get the unstable look, as if there are surges of higher power

[Darth Logos]

Oh, jsut a quickie, if you want an unstable look, i'd actually recommend your emerald flicker settings not be even.
 Usually, they end up at 0.04, 0.04   or 0.02, 0.02,   but mixing and matching works pretty well. usually if the brighter setting is longer, it looks compressed, if it's shorter, you get the unstable look, as if there are surges of higher power

Now we just need to work out the unfocused blade (sorta cloudy) appearance of the "unstable". That would be cool.

[Sypho Ruut]

The closest you'd likely be able to get without messing with the blades would be using two flickers at once, but you'd need multiple cards and a custom LED. More trouble than it's worth really.

 What i'd do with this is (let's say we're making a red blade primarily) use an RGBR led unit, and have the two R dies controlled by separate cards, along with the G and B. you could give these R dies their own flicker, like we already do with the emerald, but you could give each red die a flicker out of phase with the other.

 That way you'd get dim and light moments in your sequence, as well an apparently non-uniform flicker in the background.





A much simpler and cheaper way would be to use it jsut for videos, and simply put it on in post-effects.

[Darth Logos]

The closest you'd likely be able to get without messing with the blades would be using two flickers at once, but you'd need multiple cards and a custom LED. More trouble than it's worth really.

 What i'd do with this is (let's say we're making a red blade primarily) use an RGBR led unit, and have the two R dies controlled by separate cards, along with the G and B. you could give these R dies their own flicker, like we already do with the emerald, but you could give each red die a flicker out of phase with the other.

 That way you'd get dim and light moments in your sequence, as well an apparently non-uniform flicker in the background.
A much simpler and cheaper way would be to use it jsut for videos, and simply put it on in post-effects.

I actually just remember that I have the start of an unstable blade. The Ultra-film wasn't glued down on my first blade. And like the inquisitive idiot I am, I put my finger in it. This messed up the Ultra-film, naturally, but once I got it straightened out, I found that it had left wrinkles in the film. These wrinkles produce the effect that I'm speaking of, but only at the bottom of the blade that my finger was able to reach.

[Noctis]

Great review and the follow on posts are very informative Nox.  

You stated you ahve large hands, but do you know off hand what your glove size is?
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Ark

I have absolutely zero idea.  I don't own any gloves.  I mean, I wear a woman's large in workout gloves, but they are fingerless and my fingers are super long.  I can span an octave and a 3rd (maaaaaaaaaaybe a 4th) on the piano pretty easily, if that tells you anything. 

[arklore70]

I have absolutely zero idea.  I don't own any gloves.  I mean, I wear a woman's large in workout gloves, but they are fingerless and my fingers are super long.  I can span an octave and a 3rd (maaaaaaaaaaybe a 4th) on the piano pretty easily, if that tells you anything. 

Nox, it does.
Does this mean you are a concert pianist in your day job?
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Ark

[Qui-Lar]

Nox also plays piano?!?
You ma'am are a broad broad