Chris Gough

I'm looking at lighting 3d scenes with virtual lights. I've had a look at the new jit.gl.light object in Max 6 but I cant see a way of changing the shape of the spotlight so its long and thin, like a barcode scanner style light. Any pointers?

Also how would I go about projecting a matrix out like a light source? any Ideas of where I should look?

creating-a-virtual-projector-barcode-scanner-style-laser

@tex_map 3 seems to be a good starting place along with tex_plane_s and tex_plane_t but it appears that this is "relative to OpenGL's eye coordinates".

I'm after a free moving texture mapper similar to the jit.gl.light object.

I'm looking for something similar for an advanced projection mapping project.

quote: "I've had a look at the new jit.gl.light object in Max 6 but I cant see a way of changing the shape of the spotlight so its long and thin, like a barcode scanner style light."

This is exactly what I am looking for also. Is there any way to shape the spotlight?

Is there any easy way to create a shadow? Shadow as a consequence of light going through a long and thin window/slot?

I know that "barcode scanner style light" can be faked by drawing a line in jit.lcd and using the output as a texture. But my problem is that I am stretching the openGL object to such an extend, that one pixel increment looks as a big step. So the movement of "light" is not continuous. I could solve that with large texture matrix and large jit.lcd, but my CPU does not agree with that.

I want my Data Matrix barcode to be mapped out like light source..

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hello, why don't you try this one to help you create a barcode scanner style laser?
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Did anyone make any progress on this? Would love to create some stage type spotlights...

Creating a virtual projector / barcode scanner style laser