Is there an easy way to create Hair or Glow in Cheetah 5.0?

Is there an easy way to create Hair or Glow in Cheetah 5.0?

Hi,

With the new material options in Cheetah3d 5.0 I wonder if that make the two most difficult things easier? Like
Hair
or
a Glow (or Halo)

Will anyone publish a tutorial on the Tutorial Forum?

All the best
Christoph

P.S.: Sorry for the maybe easy question, but I am pretty new to Cheetah.

There's a script that produces hair-like effects (grassy knoll -- it comes installed with C3D -- I think there's a more ambitious version in the scripting forum).

Glow is doable with some extra work -- in 3d packages that support it it's a post-render effect. To do it in C3D you'll need to "fake" the way it's done in other packages, which is to assign an appropriate glowing material to the things you want to glow, turn off the lights, and render the scene that way -- the take that render, overlay it on the normal render, blur it to taste, use curves to boost its brightness, and set the composite mode to lighten or add or screen or whatever works.

A lot of this work could probably be scripted (i.e. up to the point where you get the "glow layer" rendered in C3D. If you use a scriptable 2d package like Photoshop or Acorn you could automate the rest of it.