the only way to make a glow shader is to use render to texture.... What you do is render the camera view to a flat view entity in front of the camera and then blur it with a pixel shader.. and then make the whole thing translucent. However as you do not have direct control over the frambuffer in gamestudio it may be hard to sync the images...I dont have a pixel blur shader offhand but an example should be available somewhere.

thank for the info
Theres no way for me to do it myself, All my skills are in art... I would happily trade assets with anyone that can do it... or maybe even pay... I really need it
Thx

I noticed over at blitz3d they have done a couple effects like this without shaders.

Sand of time effect by filax
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This is the only info the Author gave about it.

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this technique use dynamic sprite blend
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And then theres this 1 which is really cool.



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It's a special blend of motion blur, high dynamic range and depth of field to give a dreamy feel to the scene.

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Unfortunatly none of the code for these is available so its hard to figure out what there doing exactly.

If anyone knows how to do any of these effects it would be greatly appreciated, and would be awesome if it could be done without using shaders so it work on all hardware.

Thanks in advance

Those are pretty nice...I esp. like the light beams in the bottom. The only problem I've encountered placing sprites directly in front of the camera is that it can destroy the framrate if you run your monitor refresh at higher refresh rates.

If I have my monitor set at 1600x1200 with a refresh of 65 and run my game at 1024x768 and then put a sprite right in front of the screen, my fps dips from 75 to 30-45. If I run everything the same but the refresh is at 60, it will remain at 60. Likewise if I run the monitor at 1024x768 and use a higher refresh like 85 or up, and run the game at the same resolution, the fps will dip to similar numbers but remain maxed out without the sprite.

This is one reason why the two screens with the glowy fog in my newest screenshot update have been altered to no longer have that look.

You could add a glow filter by copying the current frame onto a sprite which is rendered in front of the camera and which has the bright-flag set. In static picture manipulation you use the same technique and you get great results.
Strength can be adjusted by the blur radius or the sprite's alpha value.

JOEY.

Hiya All,

Going off what Joey had said I thought I'd try the render to texture method abit.
Keep In mind that I have the effect turned up "full blast" and theres still a few kinks in it.

Heres a couple shots in a crummy test level,
when adjusting the alpha abit and set in a better indoor scene it doesnt look too bad.



Next im going to set up materials
for the sprites, this will allow for
alot more control over color and detail..

I beg you to share!!! !!!

Homey, PLEASE tell us exactly how you did your/Joey's blur effect!
It would like REALLY COOL added to in-game slow-motion effects, or when the player goes into some "special play mode" using "some special powerup."

Julian

To get that effect in the 1st Blitz sample is not very difficult at all. The method I know requires you to render two camera views, 1 that is normal and 1 that is very very very blurred. Then make the blurred one 50% transparent (or less) on a layer on top of the regular camera. It gives that sort of dreamy blurry effect, although the shapes are still distinctly made. I don't know if this is possible with 3dgs, and if it is it I have no idea how to do it Try it out with a screenshot in photoshop, it looks really neat. (I'll post something here if I have the time later)

Is it possible to make a single blurred view in 3DGS? If not the method of two cameras is out of the question.