Special effects in games refers to any kind of effect (audio or visual) which is not considered regular, i.e. they are not applied by one or two standard function calls. They usually require a some sort of custom algorithm, which can be totally different depending of which effect needs to be achieved.
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How to create plasma trail for spaceship
I have seen a lot of great looking space games that all use similar effects. I am really interested in finding out how some of these effects are generally done.
In particular I want to know how some of the trails behind spaceships or missiles are…
Adam Harte
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Where can I find a opengl pixel shader example for smooth SpotLight?
I am using Ardor3D, and find the spotlight is quite bumpy. Anybody has a good pixel shader can smooth the edges of the spot light?
thanks,
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