Adding Glow

[Heathen]

Make it thicker

[seanthelawn]

I figured it would look thicker with the glow, so I didn't want to make it too thick.

Also, this question still stands:

I noticed that in the energy sword model, the markers are here:



But in my weapon, the markers are located here:



What's the difference, and how can I change it so that my markers aren't under regions/permutations?

[t3h m00kz]

Dude I'm suprised Glow tags aren't used to create pseudo bloom

But I guess it'd look a bit overwhelming after a while

[SuperSunny]

Dude I'm suprised Glow tags aren't used to create pseudo bloom

But I guess it'd look a bit overwhelming after a while

Attempted to back in the day, just isn't the same. The good old lens flares do the trick with hardly any FPS loss.

[p0lar_bear]

Add a marker to your model in 3dsmax. Just add any distinctive piece of geometry (a sphere is standard) and name it with a # as the first character. That's a marker.

Then, look at the energy sword's glow tags. The first field is where you type the name of the marker that the glow is going to originate from. Copy this glow tag to your weapons folder, rename it something appropriate, and then put the name of your glow marker in the first box (without the #).

Finally, open your weapon tag. Add a new widgets block, select "glow", and then reference your glow tag.

Then from there it's all a matter of dinking with the settings of the glow tag to get it to look how you want it.

[seanthelawn]

I named my markers the same thing as the energy sword ones, but no matter what I do, the glow won't show up in-game. Has anyone here made a weapon with glow on it before? Maybe I could check out their tags or they could look at mine to see what I'm doing wrong.

[p0lar_bear]

Does the stock sword glow?

[seanthelawn]

Yeah, here's a pic I posted earlier: