Glow Effect For Dota Items

hamstocks · Jul 2013

Hello Polycount! A friend and i are working on some Dota 2 items, and would love to have some glowing parts on some of them. However, we're not really sure how to accomplish this. Any help or input would be great. Thanks!

Deadly Nightshade · Jul 2013

Emissive maps (also known as self-illumination)

Ace-Angel · Jul 2013

Read the Valve-Dota2 documents, they show you were the illumination mask goes.

hamstocks · Jul 2013

Alright, thanks for the quick responses guys! looking at the shader/masks docs right now!

Ace-Angel · Jul 2013

If you still have issues on how create Masks, just ask here, but generally, Valve did an excellent job at documenting where goes what in the textures and how.

If you want to use an example shader to test the model and the textures before plonking it into the engine, just download the shader here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=110022

hamstocks · Jul 2013

That shader is great, for 3DS and Maya... i use Blender. Oh well, at least i know how to do it now

CrucifiX · Jul 2013

Well, thanks for that Ace, at least I can use it

Thanks for all the replies guys!

Oh damn, no love for Max 2014. When will the world move on? Quite hard to get anything compatible with it..

Michael Knubben · Jul 2013

crucific: quite likely the world will move on when Autodesk stops breaking 3rd-party shader support

Glow Effect For Dota Items

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