abs 2 Posted January 14, 2014 Hi all, I come to you with a challenge that I'm facing. My objective is to have a surface emit a blue colour without actually appearing blue itself. Basically, the effect I'm trying to achieve is like a blue atmosphere layer/halo around the globe, without making the planet itself look blue. Any ideas? Abs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heinrich Kramer 172 Posted January 14, 2014 my first idea would be, to create a second sphere and give it a color alpha texture with roughly 2-5% opacity. no idea if this would work, though never tried something like this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AlexVestin 24 Posted January 15, 2014 First thought. Maybe create a second sphere around it, but with inverted faces? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
abs 2 Posted January 20, 2014 Whoops...turned out I forgot to subscribe to this thread. :/ Anyway, I had already tried the inverted sphere method, and it didn't look quite right, but it's the best solution that I have for now. http://i.imgur.com/FBivOeP.jpg Turns out that this method points the glow inward. What I'm looking for is a glow like this one, however: https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t31/1495216_695241987162802_2001796205_o.jpg Using a texture of 2-5% opacity doesn't work. My first attempt was to use the glass texture and apply the RVMAT to it...it still glows so blue that the small Earth sphere doesn't appear. :) I'm more than happy to try any other ideas. Abs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
