if you want glow, you would either need to add a volume fog to the Omni light as a post effect. or you could use Mental ray. Follow this tutorial if you decide to use mental Ray http://www.cgarena.com/freestuff/tutorials/max/glowingmaterial/
I'm trying to make an object glow. It's a simple sphere, I want to make a ceiling light glow effect. I followed every tutorial on making something glow but when I render the scene the object doesn't change, there is no glow. I had spot lights in the scene, then removed them but even with them gone it's still the same. Can…