Lightsaber blade

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I know that blenderguru.com made a video on making one glow but the node system seems different in cycles and i was wondering how to make a glow like in in the blender 2.64 Cycles render engine. I recently tried making the 11th Doctors Sonic Screwdriver but the tip does not look right with just an emission material.

This is the result

http://sora579.deviantart.com/#/d5qolmz (would not allow embed the picture right)

The green bulb should glow better but looking at the node set up it does not fit with the old tutorial and i can not find any help anywhere so i was hoping you good folks could help me out.

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the glow is done in the compositing nodes, not really the material nodes. compositing set up should be pretty similar to Andrews tutorial

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Well the thing is in that tutorial it mentions adding a blur effect but I don’t see that node.

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In the compositor, “Add”–>“Filter”–>“Blur”

Probably change it to “Fast Gaussian” and play with the X and Y dimensions of the blur. Run that result into a Mix node (“Add”–>“Color”–>“Mix”), run the original into the other “Image” socket, change “Mix” to “Add”. Voila.

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i think i foudn my problem thank you

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Can I get a link to Andrew’s tutorial please?