Hi. I am here to enquire as to how the good old glow effect is accomplished. All games seem to have a glowing something-or-other, be it a sword or an energy bolt, but how is this done? Thanks in adavnce, Dachande

One way is particles. Put a bunch behind the object and see whatcha get.

Alex Broadwin
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There is a tutorial from Mark Kilgard which describes Halos in OpenGL.

I''m not sure this is what you want since there is many ways of makins glows.
Could you describe a little bit more what effect you look for ?
At best, could you give a screenshot of something cool you already saw about this effect ?