Glowing Liquid in Cycles?

I am thinking of trying to change the material in my fluid render to try and make it look like say, the liquid from inside a glow stick. I am wondering if anyone has any ideas about how this might be possible?

I was thinking of combining an emission and a glass (IOR 1.33) node for a start, but I’m wondering might I need to start getting into volume and maybe some sortof SSS type stuff to make it look ok?

I have tried my above suggested method and it did’nt really give any good results. I think also the ‘glowing part’ of the liquid needs to have a sortof marbleised strandy feel to a certain extent, as usually say the edge of that glowstick liquid doesn’t seem to glow as much as the ‘centre’.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Try glass with volume emission, at least as a starting point:


great thanks I’ll give that a go :).