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![DevBlog 23 - Light Speed VFX, Player Slow Motion, and Asteroids](https://uploads.gamedev.net/blogs/monthly_2022_04/large.1881f6882aaf4ff3b8f0da10f31457e5.sa_vid23_thumbnail.jpg)
The Space Jump effect is pretty simple when looking at its individual components.
Previously I created a 3D star field for the environmental rendering.
I use the 3D locations of these stars in the effect.
When the effect starts, I start cranking up the light emitted for each star.
This is done by just …
![DevBlog 22 - Tighten Up The Graphics (Adding HDR, Bloom, Normal Maps, and more) [OpenGL 3.3]](https://uploads.gamedev.net/blogs/monthly_2022_04/large.8f7a6f8a353142e783251559f69bf6d1.sa_vid22_thumbnail.jpg)
I've refactored the rendering system in my engine.
The old way of rendering was complete in SDR.
In this update I created a separate off screen framebuffer that everything is rendered to first.
This offscreen framebuffer is a float framebuffer, and can store values outside of the normal [0,1] r…