Need help

[Tony3d]

This image is giving me a real problem with the neon. Why can't I seem to adjust the intensity of the glow on each surface? The same intensity screws up the entire look of the image. When I slide the slider for the glow any value gives my whatever I have it set to in the main setting screen, then I end up with this. Am I doing something wrong?

[richpr]

Dunno, you probably know that you set the glow per surface on the advanced tab and the global glow settings... Maybe a bit of corona or bloom may help, not sure...

Did you use some transparency with them...?

The bands of neon look to big as in height now...

Nice image though!

[Tony3d]

Yes I did use transparency, and no matter how low I set the glow in the advance tab I still get whateve is set in the Global setting. Must be another Mac Bug!!

[dwburman]

Might need to drop to some kind of multipass rendering.

[riki]

Try playing around with the Luminosity and Diffuse channels, or you may want to render out seperate passes.

[kenmac]

http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/lwhelp/index.html
KenMac

[kenmac]

Whoops..this link....

http://www.newtek.com/freestuff/lwhelp/content/014_img_processing/007_ip_process.htm

KenMac

[Phil]

I have long been wishing that NT would provide a better glow solution; the current system is not ideal.

Superglow 2 from Pontari has/had the right idea in many ways (reflects, refracts, image based controls along with pre-filter to allow glow based on colour/intensity ranges)... I was hoping for something similar in L8, but thus far it hasn't been mentioned. SG2 was once available on Mac, but there appears to have been a limited market and even on PC, it appears abandoned at this point. Still, if you fancy taking a look, head for pontari.com.

I'm not sure what might be available under image filters that might help you out, but perhaps Corona is worth a shot using special buffers?

[jin'a]

Man I love the look, it reminds me of computer graphics of those great games like Grand THeft Auto :D