Summary
You can now spice up games with small particle effects, and enhance the whole scene by applying post-processor filters. Specifically, you learned:
- How to configure particle emitters to look like smoke, fire, or sparks
- How to combine particle emitters to create complex effects, such as explosions
- How to make a scene cast shadows in the light and glow in the dark
- How to add focal depth to a wide scene
- How to turn any 3D scene into a cartoon
Other very common scenarios for post-processor filters include environmental effects such as waving fog, glittering water, and scattered sunlight. These effects are somewhat specialized (not every 3D game needs them), so they get a chapter of their own. To stay with the "nature" theme (and to give your sunlight ...
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