How to make highlights have a sense of direction?

[Guest_2000123145]

First half of the video: What I want. The little rectangular prisms look like they’re pointing down.

Second half of the video: What I have now. It looks flat and two dimensional, I can’t tell which way they’re going.

So how could I make it, so the highlights have a sense of direction? Or maybe something else can be done? Thanks!

[nguyendai12345 (Dai)]

The ‘FillTransparency’ property of the highlight has one color only, meaning it will look flat. Although if I’m not wrong, you could achieve the effect that I believe you wanted with Cel Shading techniques:

How To: Cel Shading Effect

[Line] How To: Cel Shading Effect Also called cell shading and cartoon shading, you might have seen this cool effect before in some showcases: [Cel Shading 2] Below I’ll show you how to change your lighting settings to get this effect. [Line] Instructions Open Lighting in the properties window View > PropertiesView > Explorer > Lighting Change the FogStart and FogEnd to very large values (~100000) (Properties) Lighting > FogStart, FogEnd Change the FogColor to about <250000…

[Guest_2000123145]

I don’t think those fog settings exist, at least I couldn’t find them :p
Thanks for the suggestion though :D

[Hazelfluff]

maybe change the shape? Make them more like triangles that get thinner on one side? (or perhaps use arrows?

I think when they are semitransparent, it allows for a decent sese of depth.