Still nothing, if it helps any I changed the object to a sphere and tried just the plain white texture and that looks fine, nice and bright but still translucent but I want to get the lightning bolt appearance on the sphere and that texture still just shows a dim yellow.
glow = Primitives.getSphere(6,25f);
glow.setTexture("glow");
glow.translate(model.getTransformedCenter());
glow.setTransparency(0);
glow.setTransparencyMode(Object3D.TRANSPARENCY_MODE_ADD);
glow.setLighting( Object3D.LIGHTING_NO_LIGHTS);
glow.setAdditionalColor( new Color( 255,255,255) );
glow.build();
Am I loading the texture incorrectly somehow?