Learning Visual Tricks

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the basic idea behind nearly every full screen effect involves copying the back buffer, using copy rect command, onto a texture. this texture is applied to a sprite that overlays the screen. by doing this you now blend this sprite via entity blend command, to create a glow. you would use multiple sprites for blurs.