Graphics effect is an video effect which requires non-trivial usage of a standard graphics library calls, or custom graphics processing algorithms like shaders to achive required result.
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How is 2D lighting implemented?
I am wondering what the best way to approach a "lighting" effect in 2D games is. For instance, if my main character is glowing, what techniques can I use to complete the visual effect of the character ...
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How to achieve a Neon-Light effect?
I'm wondering how to achieve a neon-light type effect. For example, in Pac-Man Chamipnship Edition:
Or in Geometry Wars:
Is that a Bloom Effect? Or what techniques would I have to look for?
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Effects to make a speeding spaceship look faster
I have a spaceship and I've created a "boost" functionality that speeds up my spaceship, what effects should I implement to create the impression of high speed?
I was thinking of making everything ...
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Creating an electricity/lighting/tesla coil effect in a 2D XNA game?
I'd like to create beams of electricity between two points very similar to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJ8-56L3Lc. The effect is so dynamic, with varying lengths and pseudo-random ...
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Examples of faking 3D
Does anyone know of any good examples of 3D being faked in 2D (not necessarily code, but games I could look up)? The player has the perspective that they are going 'into' the screen and things are ...
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Realistic metal shader
How do you create a good metal shader?
For different metals and say more or less eroded / rusty and so on.
I know that one difference from ordinary materials is that metal should 'colour' the ...
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What are the fundamentals of a Quad Billboarding effect?
I'm taking my first venture in to writing a shader and what I really need to do is create a billboarding effect. A thorough Google search turns up a number of threads on the topic and they always end ...
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Pygame water ripple effect
I have Googled for it but there are no ready scripts - as opposed to the same effect on Flash. I have checked the algorithm on The Water Effect Explained and also tested an implementation of the ...
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How to do this sprite motion blur?
Some of you may know fraxy...
Basically, I was watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL7zWdDCtOE And there are some times where some sprites spin really fast (4:00 mark for example), ...
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Creating 2D waveform for Cocos2d game
I'd like to have a Waveform in my iPhone game that I am developing using Cocos2d v2.0.
That's the ideal wave I'd like to achieve. A simpler wave which I would still be happy with is this one.
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how to add fog to a model instantiated in Xna? [closed]
I work on a small XNA games.
I generate a large map type voxel. a floor of 1000 cubic long by 1000 cubes wide.
This is why I use the method "MODEL instancing" with hardware instancing to generate a ...
