Splinter Cell Glow

Spiner · Post by **Spiner** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:07 am

Anyone know how they created those glow effects in Splinter Cell? VS would look great with taht effect or atleast one close ot it.

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:23 am

per pixel glow... which VS supports... peteyG's great galaxy model uses this for the warp nacels.

peteyg · Post by **peteyg** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:43 am

I have no idea how the glow in Splinter Cell or any other game works, but I'm pretty sure that the technique that I've used to create glows is a cheap hack.

It gets the job done, but I believe that there is a better way.

Until then... check out the tutorial I whipped up on the VS-wiki
http://www.joeredcloud.com/kandarwiki/i ... EngineGlow

Spiner · Post by **Spiner** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:44 am

hmm, I thought the current VS didnt have Per Pixel Glow yet.

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:47 am

I may be mistaken, but on the earlier forums i posted per pixel glow as a feature request, and hellcat said VS already supported it.

Post by **hellcatv** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 3:48 am

well the way the glow works eventually is that the video card draws triangles that end up looking like glow (brighter in the middle darker outside)
so the modeller can always do what a fancy 3d renderer with buiilt in glow would do

and MUCH faster than the engine could do it

so I leave the glow up to the creativity of the modeller

which in peteyG's case has been very successful--course he made some compromises that look fantastic...some people want it to look perfect--but I say peteyG's technique and just be doubled in resolution to get it looking perfect for the perfectionists

Spiner · Post by **Spiner** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:19 am

seams, alot of seams doing it the tutorial way. I know cause I did it last night. plus its not the effect Im going for.

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 4:33 am

you want it to look like this?

Spiner · Post by **Spiner** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:07 am

LOL I was just at that site.

But more like this.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~jpprod/homepage/n ... /hspc2.jpg

See how the glow bleeds inot the ship and the ship even cuts part of the glow.

But yeah your pic is basically the same thing. thats what I want.[/img]

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:11 am

hummm... i THINK that stuff is done by the game engine itself... it certainly looks impressive, though i bet you could get the same result with a 3D model, may just take a while to make.

Spiner · Post by **Spiner** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 5:13 am

yes but how to do it is the question.