Graphics effect is a video effect which requires non-trivial usage of standard graphics library calls, or custom graphics processing algorithms like shaders to achieve the required result.
Questions tagged [graphic-effects]
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How can I create a 'flaming' effect like in Ocarina of Time's title screen?
I'd like to recreate a flaming effect like the one from the logo on the title screen of the N64 game 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time,' shown below:
A quick look into the textures used in the ROM provide a single 32x32 texture that looks…
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How do I create smoke-like beam or aura effects?
I mean things like the Team Fortress 2 medic gun:
...or the Killzone: Shadow Fall anti-gravity effect:
How do these work?
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Is it possible to fake blur via images?
I'm using libGDX for an android game; as far as I can tell, it doesn't have an API for blurring.
Reading on Wikipedia, it seems like blur is formed by setting each pixels RGB values to the average of all adjacent values. Which doesn't seem easily…
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How can I create a contrail effect for a spaceship in motion?
I am curious how I could create an effect similar to the ship's tail in the following picture:
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How can I implement an Iris Wipe effect?
For those who doesn't know:
An iris wipe is a wipe that takes the shape of a growing or shrinking
circle. It has been frequently used in animated short subjects, such
as those in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series, to
signify…
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Visual effect with dark overlay gradient surrounding the center of the screen
How is it called, what is it used for, and what is the most common way to implement it?
I know these are three question in one, but since the first and second are just one-liners I decided to make them into one.
The following images are two…
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How area-of-effect effects are projected into games world?
I see a lot of skills in the games I play where they have a skill or a search area that projects a drawing on to a map, like a circle or something similar and I have no idea how that is done, and I don't think they use a texture to draw it. For the…
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How can I implement explosion effects in a 3D game?
I was wondering how I could implement explosion effects in a 3D game. I'm specifically interested in graphical techniques for creating the effects, not the related logic or systems.
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Creating a space game. Need help with a solution for creating dynamic spiral graphics
My friend and I are working on a web based game where we want to have a blackhole-like thing rendered in some form of an engine or 3D program for us to freely manipulate adding more "arms" making it smaller or bigger and playing around with its…
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How are simple smoke trails for rockets made?
I'm trying to make a simplistic 2d shmup, simple enough to be implemented with a widget toolkit (like Qt, for example), without requiring a game engine.
Everything fits except for the smoke trails for rockets. For me, a simplistic trail without…
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