I’m rendering approx 600 frames of a video and the glow effect ignores the “glow behind” randomly for about 30% of the pictures . I played a little around and it seems this effect occurs only for objects too close to the light source? Even more weird is that it’s also dependent on the frame size I use too render. Is this a known restriction or bug? Are there any other glow plugins available on the market? I remember the Pro-Optics Suite - is this available for Max9?

You’re better off doing your glows in post, an app like After Effects or similar.

If you’re using the Environment Effects glow, then you might have luck trying the Video Post glow, or vice versa.

wade s

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sleepincat 26 February 2008 11:07 AM

You’re better off doing your glows in post, an app like After Effects or similar.

Thought also this direction but will it support “glow behind”? How does it know whether a light is partly/fully covered by an object between the camera and the light?

You’d need to render out a few passes, with one just for the lights glow and and occluding geometry. I’m not sure but the After Effects glow feature may have a button to load in an alpha channel to control the glow behind stuff

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