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Deadlock Clock: Jun 19th 2014 at 11:59:00 PM
Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#1: May 17th 2014 at 5:13:04 PM

What the hell am I looking at? This just looks like a giant Ray Gun IN SPACE! shooting a guy with an enormous head. Some suggestions: Portal 2 came to mind first [1][2][3] (Similar concenpt is in Half-Life 2 [4]), but GIS showed something very similar in Halo. [5] I'm open to other suggestions, though. Of course, there's also that thing at the end of Ocarina Of Time. [6] (Needs to be cropped)

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edited 17th May '14 5:17:14 PM by Rethkir

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#2: May 20th 2014 at 8:04:07 PM

I'm not crazy about the GL pic, but my main issue with the suggestions is that I'm not sure that they're not some form of exotic energy rather than just light. That said, I'm not 100% opposed to them.

DiamondWeapon Since: Jan, 2001
#3: May 25th 2014 at 1:31:35 AM

The one with the robots or the car standing on the bridge are the best out of those, clearly shows that its solid.

The one with the block has that, too, but IMHO the bridge looks a bit too much like glass to me in that one.

Lakija Lakija from Chicago Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#4: May 25th 2014 at 1:29:15 PM

How does one differentiate between light and a solid translucent light emitting object?

I might mess around in blender and see what looks like light and what doesn't.

Pure white light could easily be a hard surface.

edited 25th May '14 1:38:11 PM by Lakija

It is what it is.
Earnest from Monterrey Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#5: May 25th 2014 at 2:10:43 PM

I humbly submit Rainbow Brite and Starlite riding on a rainbow, and this "not so hard light" parody of Mario Kart and Thor.

^What's blender?

edited 25th May '14 2:12:01 PM by Earnest

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
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#6: May 25th 2014 at 2:15:28 PM

I prefer the Portal suggestions, either 1.2 or 1.3.

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realhawaiianice Since: Jul, 2011
#7: May 25th 2014 at 3:24:28 PM

[up][up] Blender is a CGI image making program. Also, your Rainbow Brite image didn't work when I clicked on it, so I Googled it and found this: http://imgur.com/tGRIs89

Personally, I leaning towards the Portal image with Atlas and P-Body, though I'm curious if there's any image like that that clearly demonstrates that the source is light-based instead of glass.

Lakija Lakija from Chicago Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#8: May 25th 2014 at 4:11:22 PM

I like Rainbow Brite. Yea. :3 [tup]

It is what it is.
Earnest from Monterrey Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#9: May 26th 2014 at 9:24:11 PM

[up][up]Sorry about that, I double checked and it's working for me, no clue why it's giving you grief. sad

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#10: May 26th 2014 at 9:49:27 PM

The main problem with all the OP pics is that to me they all look like a force field.

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HerobrineExodus Glitch Pokemon from Cinnabar Coast Since: Nov, 2012
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#12: Jun 19th 2014 at 9:09:28 AM

I would like to suggest Infi-nut from Plants vs. Zombies 2. Despite being a hologram, zombies can interact with it like any other plant. It's very clearly Hard Light.

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#13: Jun 20th 2014 at 9:50:49 AM

[up] Looked up the pic and it's not immediately evident that it can do so...good example, poor image source.

The clock is up and we don't have consensus on anything. Locking up; no action is to be taken based on this thread.

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