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Re: Creating day-glow (fluorescent) materials?

A Lens effect Glow might work:

Look at the 'Blade Material' part of this tutorial
http://www.oman3d.com/tutorials/3ds/...ber_fadi/2.php

You can tweak the parameters as needed. It works pretty well for non-lightsaber objects too (I used it on a hoverboard I modeled for a game the other day)
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