Emissive Materials

[kisstp2006]

Hello, I'm looking for a way to create a glowing/emissive material without having to modify the renderer or write a custom shader.Is there a built-in solution or a simpler approach to achieve this? Thank you!

[jayrulez]

Hello, I haven't been monitoring this project and missed this message.

If it still matters then I will look into this.

[jayrulez]

I took a quick look and it looks like you need to do it via one of those methods.

This can all be done via the render fragments in the editor.
You would need to setup fragments for the emissive texture and maybe an input for the emissive strength.
You can modify (or make a copy of) the renderer script and the various passes where you need to use the emissive texture.
You could look at the paths for one of the other inputs to see how this could be done.

DeferredRenderer.zilchscript
DirectLighting.zilchfrag
ForwardPass.zilchfrag
GeometryPass.zilchfrag
ImageBasedLighting.zilchFrag
LightPass.zilchFrag

You'd need something like an EmissiveMap.zilchfrag and an EmissiveValue.zilchfrag. The value fragment could be optional depending on how complete you want to make the feature.