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Preview group
Preview window Lets you quickly preview the glow effect. The preview
window is multi-threaded to take advantage of systems with multiprocessors,
and updates every time you make a change to any of the glow settings that
might affect the scene.
Preview Displays a generic scene to which you can quickly set up a Glow
effect. Appears light green when selected.
VP Queue Lets you preview the scene in the Video Post queue. Preview must
be selected for the VP Queue function to work.
Focus Control tabs
The Lens Effect Glow dialog contains four tabs:
Properties on page 6676 , Preferences on page 6680 , Gradients on page 6699 , and
Inferno on page 6682
Button group
Reset Resets Lens Effects Glow to its default settings.
Load Displays a Windows-standard file open dialog from which you can
select the settings file you want to load.
Save Displays a Windows-standard Save As dialog in which you specify a
directory and filename. Lens Effects Glow settings are saved as LZG files.
Glow Properties
Video Post toolbar > Add Image Filter Event > Choose Lens Effects Glow from
Filter Plug-In list. > Setup > Properties tab
The Lens Effects Glow properties let you determine which pieces of geometry
in your scene will exhibit the effects of the glow filter, as well as how much
of a glow is applied.
Procedures
To set a material's Effects Channel ID:
1 In the Material Editor, make the material you want to be post-processed
the active material.
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