shante opened this issue on Sep 04, 2014 · 3 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 04 September 2014 at 5:59 AM
It's quite simple and has been around since Poser 5.
In the advanced material editor (where you see nodes) the root node has inputs called Ambient_Color and Ambient_Value.
If you put any color but black in Ambient_Color and any value higher than 0 in Ambient_Value, then the object glows.
Behaving as a light source to other objects is simply a consequence of turning on IDL in the newer versions of Poser.
There are other ways to make it self-lit or glow - any input (of which there are many) that is expecting a lighting node will basically cause glowing if you don't plug in a lighting node. Alternate_Diffuse, and Alternate_Specular, for example, will glow if you plug in an Image_Map or Tile or anything else that forces a particular color without concern about light sources.
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