"Simple glow around object"- shader

Hello forum folks!

I'm looking for a simple glow shader, a shader that draws light, fading from high opacity to low, around the object. I've tried to search for it, but the word 'glow' seems to relate too much to 'bloom' and I can't find what I am looking for.

Can anyone please point me into the right direction?

Thank you!

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Is this what you mean ?

http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/script-GlowEffect.html

 

Nope, More like this:

 

I'm afraid this lies too far away from my capabilities - I'm not really a (good) programmer and writing a shader is far beyond my reach...

So, does anyone know an already-built shader for this?

 

With a ramp you mean a black-to-white image? I have one, so what should I do with it?

 

Found out I was looking at the wrong shader, the shader called 'EdgeDetectNormals' (which actually IS the obvious one to look at.)

This is very close to what I need, except that the color inside the black edge and the black edge need to be gone... I can't seem to solve this with a transparent ramp... Any suggestions?

 

I think you made a typo, because the obvious one is the funky glowing things effect.

The black edge can be taken off easily, but if you take out the color inside the black edge, there is no more glow, so I don't really understand what you want to do.

Here is a screenshot without the black edge:

 

"The black edge can be taken off easily, but if you take out the color inside the black edge, there is no more glow, so I don't really understand what you want to do. "

Hi, I am having a problem with this shader as well. You say that the black edge can be taken off easily but I don't know how to do that. Do you change the shader or the texture assigned? If you change the shader then can you tell me which line?
Dom

 

I got that working, but I need the object itself to be clear of any overlaying color.

 

may be you can look into the atmospheric shader from the forms. it may be what you are looking for.http://forum.unity3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=13076

 

i have a problem with this example... i get some errors :
"Attempting to release RenderTexture that were not gotten as a temp buffer
UnityEngine.RenderTexture:ReleaseTemporary(RenderTexture) (at /Users/build/builds/unity-iphone-1.5/iphone-1.1/Runtime/Export/Generated/Graphics.cs:2225)
FunkyGlowingThingsEffect:OnDisable() (at Assets/Glowing Things/FunkyGlowingThingsEffect.js:70)"
"Assets/Edge Detection/EdgeDetectEffectNormals.js(6,24): BCE0019: 'depthTextureMode' is not a member of 'UnityEngine.Camera'. "
"Assets/Edge Detection/EdgeDetectEffectNormals.js(6,43): BCE0005: Unknown identifier: 'DepthTextureMode'."

and there are some shaders vars that have no links on "Funky glowing things Effect"

can someone give me a hint with what should i do?

Tnx

 

Yes 1.5.1 pro

 

Wherever this discussion is going, I still haven't found the shader that I was aiming for... I'm starting to think this has never been written before.

I am going for a workaround for my problem. Thanks to you all for the help!

 

Im trying to remove the black edge too because I need to create an Aura Effect around a character. I looked at the color ramp and it doesnt look like there is a black line to remove. What do i do?

 

Hmm. I'm unable to properly open the Shader Replacement project. After converting I get a lengthy list of error messages and a couple of empty scenes.

Errors are things like:
hundreds of
Rebuiling GUID cache: Deleting metadata library/metadata/00/00000000000000002000000000000000 because it is an invalid meta data file!
MetaData class can't be loaded

Assets/Glowing Things/FunkyGlowingThingsEffect.js(2,9): UCE0001: Unknown pragma 'implicit'

Cg in program 'frag': error C1010: expression left of ."depth" is not a struct or array at line 23

A tree couldn't be loaded because the prefab is missing

and so on.

I use Unity Pro 2.6.1f3
Should be good, right?

 

Sorry, meh11: could you explain it a little more in detail how do you made your glow? its exacly what we're searching for!!

 

Hmmm material based glow shader... i think this is far beyond imagination of many people heare.

Iam also serch for somthink like this... in UKD this is very simple and also in Shiva3D... but in Unity... someone must write this shader.