Blender 3D: Noob to Pro/Every Material Known to Man/Misty Globe
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Misty Globe (Click to enlarge) 
IPO Screenshot 
This is a strange misty globe, it looks cool when animated.
This could be used as a mystical crystal ball etc. etc.
Material Window[edit | edit source]
- Alpha
- 1.00
- Color
- R: .60
- G: .60
- B: .60
- Specularity
- R: 1.00
- G: 1.00
- B: 1.00
Shaders Window[edit | edit source]
Ref: 1.00
Spec: .50
Hard: 50
Amb: .50
Emit: .70
Map to Window[edit | edit source]
Alpha: clicked once
Col: clicked once
Texture #1[edit | edit source]
- Texture Window
- Type: Clouds
- NoiseSize: .350
- NoiseDepth: 2
- Nabla: .025
- Default: clicked
- SoftNoise: clicked
- Color Window
- Al: 1.00
- Poss: 1.00
- R: .777
- G: .793
- B: .919
- Bright: 1.00
- Contr: 1.00
Texture #2[edit | edit source]
- Texture Window
- Type: Clouds
- NoiseSize: .50
- NoiseDepth: 2
- Nabla: .015
- Default: clicked
- SoftNoise: clicked
- Color Window
- Al: 1.00
- Poss: 1.00
- R: .768
- G: .892
- B: .755
- Bright: 1.00
- Contr: 1.00
Animation[edit | edit source]
- The animation on this sphere uses a procedural texture,
- Make sure that you are at frame 1
- First go to the material buttons and hold your cursor over them.
- Press the "i" button on the keyboard, and select "Ofs" from the dropdown menu
- Advance to frame 200 and insert another key vertex.
- In the IPO curves, got to the Curve menu, go to Interpolation Mode, and select "Linear"
- In the IPO curves, got to the Curve menu, go to Extend Mode, and select "Extrapolation"
- In the list along the right side of the IPO curve screen, select OfsX, and press tab on the keyboard
- Right click on the second vertex and drag it up to about .2
- In the list along the right side of the IPO curve screen, select OfsY, and press tab on the keyboard
- Right click on the second vertex and drag it up to about .3
