How can you texture a thruster in Cycles?

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With volumetrics, objectID and materialID will still be assigned to the faces of the object…
You may try for example:
-to render the object in a separate layer and use it as a mask.
-or if it’s intensity is high, apply the glow just to bright pixels.

sure there are more ways to get it work, but not with the IDs.

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Ahh, gotcha, lack of understanding on my part, I will look at giving it a unique render layer, cheers.