Looking for glow/bloom/emissive viewport shader for Maya 2017.

malcolm

Hi guys, I'm looking for a way to bloom/glow/emissive my alpha cut out that is mapped to a quad. I'd like a shader that glows like the emissive does in unreal, that is not just a fake texture where you have to create the glow with a texture, but it actually creates bloom based on the brightness of the shader. Does such a thing exist for the Maya viewport? Looking to achieve the below image in the viewport.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-omm-tYiWkjE/T9nE1kdNCQI/AAAAAAAAAZc/F31rkbzDcE4/s1600/1.jpg

Eric Chadwick

I don't think Viewport 2.0 supports any post processing. You could try a 3rd-party iterative renderer, like furryballRT or V-Ray RT but they're not as responsive as a game-like D3D or OGL viewport.

radiancef0rge

Eric is correct. Its currently not possible, nor for the foreseeable future. 

throttlekitty

I think it can, but it would have to be scene based, reading from a shader on an object(s). Viewport 2.0 has an API and rendering overrides, which I think is the route you'd need to go to do some post processing based on the incandesence attribue of a default material.

malcolm

Okay, we'll I guess I'll explore using a render layer with Maya software and their native glow shader. I would have thought this would be possible with shader fx.