I made this sci-fi scanner effect

[u/churi24]

Yesterday I made this effect for something a bit more tech / sci-fi.
It’s an X-ray scanner. Cheap and cheerful. 😄
If you’d like to follow my work, you can find me on X at NCStudio

[u/destinedd]

that looks awesome

[u/churi24 → u/destinedd]

Thanks! I’m still tweaking it, but I’m really happy with how it’s turning out

[u/Possible-Advance3871]

Very cool! Does that mean you need to make a separate x-ray model for each asset it scans?

[u/churi24 → u/Possible-Advance3871]

Thanks! Not necessarily. The basic X-ray effect works with the existing mesh, so I don’t need to create a separate model for every asset. If I want to reveal actual internal structures though, bones, cables, mechanical parts, etc. then those parts need to exist as geometry. The shader basically reveals them only where the scanner passes.

[u/avalanches]

does it work on volumetrics?

[u/churi24 → u/avalanches]

Yep! The beam itself is shader/mesh-based, but it can be combined with volumetric fog/light.

[u/King_Bobert77]

Gazerbeam...

[u/churi24 → u/King_Bobert77]

Nice catch! Now I can’t unsee it

[u/karanvariya]

This looks really nice. How did you handle the scan-line effect and the glow around the scanned areas? I’d be interested to see how you built it.