More game glow issues

[Mrpearlzildjian]

Ok, so after checking out some engines and stuff and gauging how much time I have left, I have decided to take the Mental Ray route for my renders since it has post process glow, however I am running into a general glow mapping issue which is kind of a noob thing, but I havn't messed with glow much so I'm still new to it's process.

Basically... It's not respecting the alpha I plug into it. Every time I render I get this:



This is my alpha..(sorry for the large rez)



Either I'm not plugging it into the right thing or something else is going entirely wrong here.

I understand the alpha idea but I just have no clue where to plug it in to in Maya.

**ignore the map, I have NO CLUE why it's showing up like that.**

Please help.

[Vailias]

try using the alpha is luminance checkbox on the material settings unless that alpha is actually the channel in a 32bit texture.

[Mrpearlzildjian]

I actually noticed it was because the alpha gain was too high. I still can't quite get the look I want, but it'll suffice.

Thanks a lot for your help though!