Glow buffer and z order

#1 Make sure the glow is applied to the 2nd material ONLY.

That is, put the base frame on Material 1, and the glowing innerpart on Material 2.. then apply glow on the 2nd material.

#2 Hmm.. that didnt seem to werk, im now only seeing the glow texture..

#3 Stefan is correct, you should just be able to put the non-glowing bit on stage 0, and the glowing bit on stage 1.

When you are seeing just the glow texture, what's going on with the rest of the scene? Can you only see the glowing bits, and everything else is black?

Are any of these materials translucent?

#4 Ok, here is what im getting with the following decl

new Material(Strut1)
{
   baseTex[0] = "Strut1";
   bumpTex[0] = "frame_n";
 
   baseTex[1] = "strut1_glow";
   glow[1] = true;

  // animFlags[1] = $scroll;
  // scrollDir[1] = "0.0 1.0";
  // scrollSpeed[1] = 0.8;
  
};

The strut1 texture is a targa with alpha trans for the holes
Strut1_glow is png full alpha.

#5 Argghh, I wrote nice post showing how this could be done and then realized that there is no blendOp override for Material stages. I'll have to add this to the list of things to be done for MS3.

Here's the deal at the moment: you can't mask out glowing areas with other stages/textures unless you use a CustomMaterial. You CAN make bits of areas glow without masking though, just color everything in your second stage baseTex black that you don't want glowing.

This won't work if you want your glowing bits to scroll, but you can animate them (see the glowing green areas on the floor of the demo).

#6 Ok gotcha..i'll try custom material