help! with making something glow for noob

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Greetings,

I’d like to make the indigo tip and center of attached boomerang glow. I’ve tried messing around with it as much as I could before going online and looking for tuts. Most of them were from older versions of Blender and showed how to make something glow in blender render by having a black background and cranking up the emission for the material. Not very impressive. I did find one that showed how to make a cool glowing laser beam in cycles render but it was a straight object. Not going to work form me I’m afraid. I did see some tuts for making things glow using something called a compositor that I didn’t find a lot of tuts on, and when I did they were complex; like building an entire car with glowing headlights. Way above my head. Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks,
TP

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give the material an emission value in materials settings, then, in world buttons, check ‘indirect lighting’, and just beneath that in the ‘gather’ panel, check ‘approximate’.

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The glow effect you are probably looking for is a post-processing effect. It is normally done in the compositor using the Glare node.

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Thanks. This compositor you speak of makes me curious. Do you know any good tuts? I’ve looked and have not found much on how to apply it to something like this

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http://www.blendernerd.com/five-ways-to-create-glow/

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much appresh.

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For other nubs out there, I finally found a more up to date tut, although it’s not 2.71. But OMG! I spend an 2 hours digging for the fact that you have to click on “use nodes” button! Aaaahhhhh!!!

http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/introduction-to-the-compositor/#.VBzO4UtrVBV

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Technically that tutorial is older than several of the ones I gave you. The Use Nodes thing has always been the case. But I’m glad you’ve got it figured out.