How to acheive a glow, similar to Tron's outfits?

Unity Engine
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I’m trying to get a ‘Self-Illuminated Normal mapped Diffuse’ shader working. In’ order to achieve a glow on the numbers, what’s am I missing? The D8_glow is a black and white texture, the numbers being white. The light blue dice has the Self-Illuminated shader, and the darker one has just a diffused bump.

I did change the D8_glow texture to Generate Alpha from Gray Scale and that seemed to help with keeping the dice dark and only showing the numbers as a vivid white (not shown in the screenshot).

Bloom sort of works, and glow doesn’t seem to give me the effect I want, making everything glow. I’d like the white numbers to be a solid white with an even glow emanating from them.

Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated!

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The illumination in the shader comes from the alpha channel so make sure to keep “Alpha from Greyscale” checked. For the bloom/glow there is a setting for how much the alpha controls glow amount. Adjust that and the general luminosity threshold to get the effect you desire.

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/script-BloomAndLensFlares.html

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/script-GlowEffect.html

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I saw all of those, and I was playing around with the glow and bloom effects but they don’t seem to give me a consistent glow illumination. Is there another method that I could use?