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vapulus
10-25-2002, 09:15 PM
I'll start off by explaining what I'm trying to do. In an animation I have a coil wrapped around a column of sorts. I would like to have the coil glow. Just "glowing" the object doesn't achieve the look I'm going for, because it doesn't really give off light, it just adds glowing to the pixels around it, if you know what I mean. I'm trying to actually make it emit light (or fake it) so that it actually throws the blue color on to the surrounding walls and columns. Is there a way to make the actual coil emit light? I'd rather not try to set up a large amount of point lights in a ring surrounding the coil.

Thanks, in advance, for any help, guys.
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