my glow stops glowing when it's not hit by light

[boyluya]

Is this a problem or is it just normal in udk? Thanks.

[Snight]

Can you please be more specific?

[Oniram]

your glow should be in the emissive channel. if it is then it would glow in any lighting situation

[Zack Fowler]

If you mean the bloom post-process effect, it means your emissive output is not strong enough to reach the bloom threshold by itself. Add a multiply in your shader just before plugging into emissive output to crank it up. The value you want is probably somewhere between 1.5 and 4.0.

Alternatively, lower your bloom threshold -- however, this means bright surfaces in general are more likely to bloom.

[boyluya]

Sorry guys, didn't notice there were already replies. What I meant was the emissive, they stop glowing once they're not hit by light. But I already figured it out. Thanks for the help. :)

[nicocabbalero]

could you tell me how you solved this issue? I seem to have a similar problem affecting the glow on the the gun in udk.

[boyluya]

nicocabbalero: Well, I really don't know how actually. But I figured out that I was having that problem when I use a dominant directional light, so I just used a point light instead.