Beginer question 3ds max11

Builder_Anthony

Hello my first post,

My model is a hot poker for a fireplace and i have split my model into 2 peices so i could add a lens effect glow to the tip of the poker.My center shaft is seperate so it doesnt contain the lens effect glow.

How would i combine these 2 peices back and yet keep the glow effect just on the tip of the poker?

MoP

You could use Material IDs to assign the glow to the object - just set up a specific effect ID on a material, then apply that material to the tip of the poker after combining them.

SiN13

I don't mean to hijack the thread but I've been working with lens effect glow recently and I was wondering if there was a way you could go even further and mask out the glow on the surface with a map. From what I could find there were only simple filters to apply glow by object id, material id, image hue, etc. I couldn't find anyway way to mask the glow on a material that has other parts to it that will not glow.

The best I could come up with was rendering out black and white images and create the glow in post.

MoP

To be honest for any big project I'd probably recommend doing the glow in post anyway using masks, because it's more flexible that way - faster to re-render out just the mask and tweak the glow effect in an external app (eg. Photoshop for stills or After Effects for movies).