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wah_pov

07-30-2004, 09:42 AM

Well, the sphere below contains 4 layers of polySphere, the problem here u see that i assign glow with mask to the texture on the 1st layer but the inside 2nd layer i aso assign a effects glow with mask like the 1st layer, but it doesn't seem to glow, tried using self-illumintion also but it didn't worked.. can anyone help?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v211/maya_zvan/glowball.jpg

Ls3D

07-30-2004, 09:16 PM

Glow and other effects are really 2D in nature, a post process that happens to your rendering rather than inside it - whatever that means..

You may be able to composite the effect you need or use 3rd party plug-ins to achieve the look.
-S

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