Making Lasers with Ambient Occlusion Masks in Cinema 4D

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Intersecting Lines with Glow

In this tutorial we will be covering three different methods for creating lasers in Cinema 4D and Corona Renderer.
For our short film Syntactic Labyrinths I had to figure out ways for making a laser scanline effect.

Depending on your framing you could either achieve this with a thin Area Light with a 100% Directionality, or by creating a Light Material that uses an Ambient Occlusion pass as a mask.

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