How do I add a glow effect in a complex mesh like lights in a car model?

[BluBolt]

Hello fellow Blender Artists!
I have been using Blender for quite a while now, just experimenting with materials and logic bricks. I am a total noob in scripting in Python.

I need help in making a lens glare/flare or glow effect in the headlights and tail lights of a car model I have prepared for the game engine. The model is not mine but I tweaked it to look good in the game engine for my game.

Here is how it looks in the game engine right now:

I would like a glow effect around the lights. I’ve seen simple glow effects by using a sphere and adding a point light in it, but I do not know how to put it in the shape of the lights in this car.

I’m sorry if the images are not working properly as I don’t know how the uploads work here!

Any kind of help is appreciated!

[BluBolt]

There is a separate thin strip in the Tail Lights to which I want to apply the effect.

[BluBolt]

The Headlights should look something like this:

[BluBolt]

The Tail Lights should look something like this:

[GloriaTheAnimat (GloriaTheAnimator)]

make those materials emisive set them to around 1.5 ir 2 and then render it then in the compositor add a glare node and change that to fog glow and play around and it should work

[Daedalus_MDW]

you dont get compositor in the bge. but what you are looking for is called “bloom”. a glsl filter can be used.

[BluePrintRandom]

in upbge current master you can even use a ‘bloom buffer’ (a render attachment telling specifically what areas to bloom)

libload is broken in master after a refactor of the scenegraph.

However everything else appears to be working.

this uses a ‘temporal buffer bloom’ to avoid popping assosiated with mipmap downsample bloom

[BluBolt]

I have tried using the Bloom GLSL filter but that adds the glow effect to the entire scene.

[BluBolt]

I’m sorry, I’m unable to get UPBGE built and running properly in Linux. I would like to do this effect in the vanilla game engine only.

[Daedalus_MDW]

old upbge builds for linux:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8EITuogwZr6Mi1EQW5FbERqTHc

latest:
https://mega.nz/#F!k9MW1KiZ!UOKzjh3IQ0GEgjQ6GUc7ug

[BluBolt]

Okay, I got the experimental version running on my system successfully. How do I add the filter to the object?

[BluBolt]

Where exactly can I get the ‘Bloom Buffer’ Render attachment in UPBGE?

[BluePrintRandom]

this has bloom and distortion buffer
http://pasteall.org/blend/index.php?id=51867

append the camera to a new blend and then append bloom.py and distort.py
add 2 attachements in the render tab

[BluBolt]

I did what you said and this is the result:

The FPS gone too low. How do I only apply the bloom to the head lights and tail lights?
I did not understand what “add 2 attachments in the render tab” means.

[BluePrintRandom]

so this is how you add attachment slots.

then convert your material to nodes - add a output attachment node for emission and for distort
[the emission buffer is what decides what blooms]

see the nodes?

[BluBolt]

I don’t seem to be having the Attachments menu under my Render Tab and I don’t know why I don’t have the multiply node and the attachment node in my node editor.

[Daedalus_MDW]

ok, lets be honest. why spend extrenous efforts on something in the bge that everyone else has as a check box.

[BluBolt]

So, does that mean that I cannot get that desired effect in bge?

[BluePrintRandom]

No, they don’t have precision bloom without a buffer

[BluBolt]

How did you get the attachments tab in your UPBGE?