To rotate the image around the 3D wireframe, go back to the 3D panel and click on Sphere. The 3D Axes tool will appear in the image window with three "arms" for the X, Y, and Z axes. Hover over the different sections in each arm and watch the tool tips carefully.... Low cost glow around a sphere Hey all, I have this space scene I've been working on and am quite happy with it except one thing, a glow effect around the planets. I've tried a few different ways to do it, and am currently just rendering a single particle to produce the glow.
I want to create a transparent glow around a sphere. The problem I have is that I can't seem to alter the transparency of the glow. I tried experimenting with The problem I have is that I can't seem to alter the transparency of the glow.
The purpose here is to create a basic scene with a sphere over a plane, nicely lighted. You should already know the basics of Blender (creating a mesh, moving and rotating it, rendering). You should already know the basics of Blender (creating a mesh, moving and rotating it, rendering).
Before rendering, I also applied a 10% glow to the small sphere�s surface and enabled the glow effect in the �Processing� tab (control-F8). The intensity is set to 50% and the Glow Radius is set to 3 pixels.