Spot halo and transparent materials

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Is there any way to make a spot halo go through a material that has and alpha value > 0. If not does anyone have any alternatives?

GreyBeard

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Make your HaloStep 0.

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Your solution works with ztrans but unfortunately not with raytrans. I got a similar result by putting the halo spot on a different layer than the transparent block and pressing the layer button for the spot. I guess I’ll just combine a couple of renders.

GreyBeard

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Aha… so your question is how to make the halo volumetrics show up inside an object. That, I’ve always assumed is what ‘ZInvert’ is for, but it does a horrible job and composting is better.

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Aha… so your question is how to make the halo volumetrics show up inside an object.

Yes, I’m sorry it wasn’t that clear in my explanation.
I did try the zinvert as well as flipping normals without any luck :expressionless:

Thanks for your help (I forgot to say it last time),
GreyBeard

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Friend Fligh%, as an organic gardener I couldn’t help but notice the “composting” misspell. :smiley: and thought it was funny in context. Please forgive the OT :expressionless:

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LOL, that’s not a misspell. It’s the word I had in mind, the one I learned here not in the cabbage patch. You had my mind jump to compositing but that somehow sounds like a Brazilian speaking Spanish so I punched “composting” into the search page and I feel somehow vindicated (my spell checker works better than Al_Capone’s maybe) to see that Greybeard is indeed familiar with the term. Now I wonder how that would translate into Spanish?

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