how to create emissive clothing for EmissiveClothingPlus?

[Mm3]

hi, i want to use this plugin to lit up clothing i have but there is no tutorial of how to make clothing glow.

when i try to use it on the scales clothing from WeebU i managed to make the colors pulse in red but they aren't glowing.

so my question is how to make clothing glow? is it a texture?

i would really appreciate the help.

 

[Juno]

So the fist thing to know about emissive materials in Vam is they don't really glow as you would hope on their own and the only way to get the glow effect is with bloom in postprocess. So within vam MacGrubers Postmagic or Moyashis posteffect plugins or externally reshade will be needed.

The emissive plugin can do things 2 ways. First by making an entire clothing material emissive by setting the material name to end "_(em)". Any cloth mat with this appended to the name will be picked up by the plugin automatically. Alternatively the plugin has an override option to tell it regardless make this material slot emissive. The downside it will be the entire material which in some cases is not desirable.

The second way is to create a texture to describe which parts of a material to be emissive, the texture should be greyscale with black being no emission and white for fully emissive and this texture goes in the decal slot. This allows you to set only parts of a material to be emissive.

 

[SlimerJSpud]

The thing to note about bloom is that in Vam and other rendering apps, like Daz3D, bloom is not a property of the light source, it's a property of the render engine, basically the camera. If you turn on bloom, everything in the scene will have bloom on it, even though it's not a light emitter. Any amount of light reflecting off any surface will show the bloom effect. IRL, bloom is something you only see close to a light source, like a fluorescent tube.

Bottom line, you don't have to use bloom with emissive clothing. If you do, know that everything in the scene will glow to some extent, depending on how much light hits it. The Cyber strip tease scene is possibly the best use of emissive clothing, hands down. Pick that apart to see how it's done.

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