What do you guys call the little light glow around a light bulb in a game?

malcolm

I refer to these glows around lights as halos. Usually done with a forward facing quad set to additive in front of the street light model or whatever. Just wondering if there is a more common name everyone is using.

Joshua Stubbles

Light glow or flare, usually.

Slum

Glows, flares, or tedious sons of bitches. They were the bane of my sanity on Wolfenstein.

rube

Halation is what it's actually called in the real world. I usually call it a halo or glow.

monster

I think the unreal engine calls them coronas, but that term seems to apply to the sun and other celestial bodies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona

SHEPEIRO

well it depends on the technique used to create them and the effect its achieving as they are different depending on whever its an atmospheric glow or a lens based effect

Yozora

light glow seems to work best, especially when you yourself use that term to describe something that you'll know everyone will understand

renderhjs

glow
glare
corona
sprite

killingpeople

i've always called them coronas. all those other terms being thrown out would seem to work out for me, i'd know what you were talking about.

malcolm

I'll go with halo then as that seems to be the term the render programmer is using at work. Corona is also a great idea. Thanks.

Frump

I was going to say Corona, it comes to mind first for me. I've definitely heard that one because of unreal engine. Beside that, it's called light glow in Maya and I'd definitely know what you mean if you said "halo". Other than those, I'm not sure if I would understand what you meant just by the word, but it's easy enough to explain.

BradMyers82

Bloom?

RickFX

yeah i was thinking bloom too O.o

killingpeople

well, bloom could work, sure, but it's use overlaps a different process defined by the term. the popular use for the term bloom typically describes the post process effect, not the billboard particle effect they are talking about here. that'd kinda cause the similar confusion you may get when using the term skinning to define texturing and the vert weighting process in rigging, which does occur from time to time; old schoolers will still refer to texturing as skinning and textures as skins.

Whargoul

Light flare.

SHEPEIRO

killingpeople wrote: »

well, bloom could work, sure, but it's use overlaps a different process defined by the term. the popular use for the term bloom typically describes the post process effect, not the billboard particle effect they are talking about here. that'd kinda cause the similar confusion you may get when using the term skinning to define texturing and the vert weighting process in rigging, which does occur from time to time; old schoolers will still refer to texturing as skinning and textures as skins.

again it depends on whever its the name of the effect or the technique used to create that effect, the thread title is not clear on this, personnally i think face-on coronas are on the way out, post effect based stuff can acheive much better results unless were talking about fancy lensflare style shite,