I tried looking through the tutorial database but I got everything ecxept anything close to what I needed so I just tried creating my own thread hoping I can get some help.

I have seen items in the store touting items as "Self Illuminating" and wanted to know what that is. If I understand it it is something like a prop of say, a light bulb that actually glows and emnates light similar to a Poser Light to make it look like a real light bulb....yes?

Is there a turorial for this somehere that anyone knows about or can someone here familair with the properties and/or creating it be willing to walk me through the creating process?

It woul dbe really nice know how to do that.

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.