How do i make a realistic light?

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hello BA members, i am making a horror game, i am trying to make a realistic light effect from my lightbulb. Here is the picture of what it currently looks like, which is very bad. Please offer help on how i can fix this/make better light effects.

http://www.pasteall.org/pic/56368

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  1. Make the light ‘glow’ by giving it an emit value in the material
  2. Make the spotlight wider, and have a softer edge (in the spotlight settings, increase the conesize and the blend factor)
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You can also make a cone with an alpha that emulates volume coming from the light. So it looks like this…

volumetric-light-414.jpg780×780 28.4 KB

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Here’s a quick example of the volume. You can make multiple of these on top of each other with different falloff effects.

VolumeLightFake.blend (724 KB)

I’ve never attached a Blend file before so I hope that works for you.