I'm trying to make an image texture that glows in Blender. An example might be a television or a smart phone. How can I accomplish this? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I haven't rendered the image, but this seems to do the effect that I wanted:
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Add a plane, unwrap it and give it an image texture. Set the nodes as pictured below (connect the Image Texture node to Emission node). Set up the emitter's strenght.
If you want to increase the glowing effect you may do this in Compositor. Just add a Glare node and experiment with its settings.
answered May 21 '15 at 20:35
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$\begingroup$ I'm brand new to this forum, but I edited my post with a screenshot of the nodes (which looks a lot like your first image), but the edits aren't visible yet because it hasn't been peer reviewed. Thank you and thank you Ross, couldn't have done it without your help! $\endgroup$ – Chris May 21 '15 at 20:46
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Set your image texture, and set your material type to "emission".
edit if you're using cycles:
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1$\begingroup$ Can you add more details of the settings with a screenshot? $\endgroup$ – Denis May 21 '15 at 20:02
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$\begingroup$ OP is unclear which render engine is being used. $\endgroup$ – Ross M. May 21 '15 at 20:12
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6$\begingroup$ @RossM. You can do screengrabs on blender pressing Ctrl+F3 $\endgroup$ – user1853 May 21 '15 at 20:45
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1$\begingroup$ ... did ... you take a picture... of your screen? $\endgroup$ – 10 Replies Nov 28 '16 at 21:34
