Glow Tutorial Unity | How to Make your Objects GLOW in 2023 (Updated)

Let's learn how to make an object glow in Unity with this Unity development tutorial! By using a little bit of post-processing, some bloom, and some material emission, we can easily make our objects glow in the Unity built-in render pipeline.
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~ Chapters ~
00:00 Introduction
00:11 Install Post Processing
00:29 Create a New Layer
00:42 Setting up Post Processing
01:16 Adding Bloom
01:41 Creating an Emissive Material
02:11 Debugging
02:46 ~ Great Success ~

[@_SF_Media]

Short, informative, and to the damn point. Wish all tutorial / help videos were like this.

[@maxave7448]

Thanks for this helpful tutorial! I had everything set up and running in just a few minutes!

[@boxbobgt]

wow, thank you so much! i was looking for an easy to understand tutorial on this and it significantly increased the quality of my VR game.

[@RigorMortisTortoise]

That's awesome to hear, thank you!

[@michaelslattery2273]

wow, so fast and clear, thanks. this is a great way to get into post processing for beginners

[@hakuj0102]

note: in the newest versions of unity, the post processing volume need to stay outside of camera (just create a empty object for it)

[@WackyTheWise]

Thanks mate, was wondering why all my objects were glowing

[@pandexVR]

this helped me so much you are by far one of the best unity tut ytuber

[@juliadomschke8927]

This is awesome, thanks alot!🥰

[@fandrawerNgundam]

for unity 2021
1-Add post processing package
2-Create new layer for post processing
3-add "post processing layer" component to the main camera
4-add new empty game object, add "post processing volume" component in this empty game object
5-MAKE SURE THE LAYER IN THE EMPTY GAME OBJECT (which contains post processing volume component) SET TO THE NEW LAYER THAT YOU CREATED

[@tinablair]

Thank you for adding this however the glow is still not working for me (Unity 2021.3.21). I'm just not sure what setting is missing or incorrect.

[@duelz9366]

@@tinablair Same here man

[@gutefragen5427]

thx helped me a lot!!

[@stxrluvr]

THANK YOU !!!!! :)

[@EricDavidTippett]

Thanks!

[@minecraftstuffs]

thank you :)

[@TheRule1]

Thank you
my game looks good now

[@budddwyer6680]

Thanks a lot, ma'am!

[@mrzenii8173]

thank you so much i was stuck for a week trying to get decent looking explosions and no tutorial helped me untill you. Ill make another account and like this video again if you want, ily thx lol.

[@RigorMortisTortoise]

Hahaha that's very sweet, happy I could help!

[@thedave1602]

Awesome. This was just what I needed. The only issue is at the end of the video when you adjust the post processing power, we cannot see it. An ad for another one of your video covers it.

[@RigorMortisTortoise]

Glad I could help, and thank you for letting me know! I will fix it

[@KronosTL]

I wanted to add glow to specific object using layer but apparently it doesn't work, any idea?

[@rofinatheirin9929]

Is this method compatible with avatars, or is it world/environments only? (I'm making an avatar for VRChat)

[@PurooRoy]

Is it possible to add a glow to an object that already has a texture on it?

[@AndyJ.Studio]

Can I make objects glow as I move towards it?

[@cade5792]

Excellent Tutorial. Thanks!

[@CantcerCause]

Tried this for VR but unfortunately doesnt work, is it supposed to?

[@pedroaboffa]

How to make it work only in ONE object as the title of the video says and not entire scene? thank you!

[@ThanhNguyen-po7zy]

I guess that you may need to create a 2nd camera with the specific layer for the bloom object that overlay it on the main camera.

[@prettytroubles2240]

it works fine but when I build it, it doesnt glow!

[@kea_h]

the object glows fine, but it makes the skybox glow as well, how can i make just the object glow?

[@kea_h]

nevermind, easy fix, i just made soft knee 0 (works fine for my context)

[@user-qb4vw2zy1l]

I'm sorry but can you help me, as I did same as video but I didn't get the final effect actually it stayed same as the main material color, knowing that I'm using URP project

[@tinablair]

Same for me

[@axelthefoxytechworld8024]

dosent work

[@Official.Ranger]

its not working i did everything step by step and when i move up the intensity its not working :

[@pjr3896]

Same and I have no idea why

[@giantsama.]

@@pjr3896 in the post process layer component change the ''layer'' to ''camera'' if you followed step by step and made a new camera layer worked for me that way

[@branogago7084]

Same ....why?

[@claraamador3931]

Same...