Maya 2016.5 - How to make glow without glow shaders and flickering?

Forum: Autodesk Maya
Posted By: RoccoFx
Post Time: 05-05-2017 at 04:00 AM
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I cant add glow to my animation scene, wich is rendered with mental ray because of a problem called "flickering", Autodesk knows about this problem, hasn´t solved it yet and just gives excuses about it, then: How to make glow without using the glow shader and without flickering on animation?

Here is why you cant use glow on animation, excuses from Autodesk´s site:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/supp...595C9C-htm.html

"Be aware that when you render an animation that has glowing shaders, you may see a noticeable flickering. To remove the flickering, deselect the Auto Exposure setting. When you do this, the glows will appear blown out. You can lower the Glow Intensity slider in the Glow Attributes to eliminate the blown-out look in the render."

Autodesk solution doesn´t work (turn off auto exposure), the only way to avoid flickering on animation is raising threshold to 1 wich disables the glow. If someone has an alternative or knows a video tutorial to make glow for animation, please help.