Forum: Carrara

Subject: My anything glows won't glow

estherau opened this issue on Mar 19, 2006 ยท 11 posts

estherau posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 6:01 AM

I know it has been asked before, but I just did a search and couldn't find the answer. I inserted anything glows in my scene and a fire, and then I chose fire as the item to apply the glow to, but there is no glow that I can detect. Love esther

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ren_mem posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 8:40 PM

Yeah, here is, I believe the original file someone posted as an example of this. I am changing the extension.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

ren_mem posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 8:54 PM

Esther, I didn't see that it worked w/ the fire primitive. Might work with primivol.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

estherau posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 8:54 PM

hi - link doesn't work - how about someone gives me a quick rundown of how it is done - maybe try using the fire object like i did. that would be great. love esther

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ren_mem posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 9:04 PM

It causes the other objects to glow. Not glow directly.Here try this.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

ren_mem posted Sun, 19 March 2006 at 9:07 PM

You attach aglows to the object. Set the color and it reflects that color to surrounding objects.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

estherau posted Mon, 20 March 2006 at 1:36 AM

i changed file name to .car but it wouldn't open. love esther

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falconperigot posted Mon, 20 March 2006 at 2:20 AM

AGlows uses the geometry of an object to create a light source. It doesn't make the object 'glow' (you need the glow channel of the shader to do that) but it enables your object to shine light on your scene. The problem you're having with the Fire object is that it doesn't have geometry for AGlows to use. The solution is to use a bulb instead, perhaps with a gel to create better 'firelight'. My version uses an orange bulb with a greyscale gel but a colored gel would perhaps look better.

estherau posted Mon, 20 March 2006 at 3:03 AM

aha!

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ren_mem posted Mon, 20 March 2006 at 2:02 PM

LoL. Sorry the file didn't work esther. The second file actually looked ok here. It was from a pc, but I don't think that would matter.(The first one I changed the name before uploading, but not the file so it appeared blank.) The aglows w/ fire primitive didn't work and if you stick an object in the fire I din't think it looked right w/ aglows.

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.

estherau posted Mon, 20 March 2006 at 11:12 PM

i have an object i've put in the file. i'll try your file again using another browser, love esther

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