I'm trying to make the lotr ring.

[pyromania]

That sounds like the exact way I made my ring shader. I have a blinn shader as the gold. Then I used a lambert material for the text. The text is an alpha mapped tga that drives the transparency. The lambert is then layerd on top of the gold blinn with a layered shader, and I can control the glow by setting it on the lambert material.

Maybe the specularity on the blinn is washing the glow out. :\

[erwin1978]

mental ray also doesn't work with the glow

can you send me your shader so I can see how its connected?

[pyromania]

This is the shader i ended up using. It was a little easier to setup because I didn't use an alpha channel. The text is controlled by the file texture on the lambert material. I used a tga with a white background and black text.

http://home.insightbb.com/~devroot/lotr.mb

[erwin1978]

how come there's no glow where there is shadow?

[pyromania]

That shader just does glow for the text on the ring. There is no localized glow. If you want something like that, add a low intensity ambient light to the scene.

[erwin1978]

the text is in the shadow and it's not glowing

is there a way to make this work in mental ray?

[Maya Ayanami]

maya shader glow is very weird because your object will only glow if there is light shinning on it.

with the free mental ray that you can download from the A|W site does not support any of maya's post proccess fx including shader glow. I dont know about Mray 3.x that you must buy.

but in maya 5 what comes with Mray I know for a fact that it will support things like shader glow.

[nemirc]

Maybe a dumb idea but have you thought about adding the glow FX in POST?

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