What is this effect, and how to make it ?

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RemiD(Posted 2014) [#1]
Hello,

I have seen a graphic effect that i have never seen before, it is a kind of "glow" but not exactly glow.

See :
https://www.youtube.com/v/OGkTdMDTNOI?start=224&end=230
https://www.youtube.com/v/ss_qxg_angY?start=347&end=352

How this effect is called, and any idea how to make it ?

Thanks,


big10p(Posted 2014) [#2]
Looks like some kind of feedback effect, to me. Instead of rendering (whatever) to a blank canvas, you render over the top of the previous render. Before rendering, you can do other stuff, like scaling.


RemiD(Posted 2014) [#3]
So in this case,
render the whole scene
then don't clear the backbuffer
then several times :
scale up the character
render only the character
it should draw the scaled up character over the previous render

?


big10p(Posted 2014) [#4]
No, you don't want to affect the entire scene. You'd need to render the 'glowing' characters separately. Each pass, you'd scale/rotate (whatever) the old render, not the actual characters.

TBH, it's probabaly all done with shaders, these days.