First here it looks like: I expirienced lots of troubles, and trying to resize image to fullscreen makes impressive lags, still works fast in small window. 1. In all normal languages when i set width to 64, i get pixel numbers from 0 to 63, still this is wrong to OpenGL somehow. Width 64 still means 64 pixels on screen, but i got 65 pixels to work for, probably i'm setting them not like "middle of pixel" but like "corner of pixel" ? dunno. 2. Connects to a first problem - i'm making texture of what i have on screen and draws it again x2 smaller. First i thinked i'll lose each second pixel, even with linear filtration, so i thinked i'll need to move it half pixel to get all pixels counted in. But in fact i got i don't need any halfpixel offset, probably because of "corner of pixel" idea. Anyone knows that's better, would appreciate ) 3. In tutorial i used it's said i need to make 4 less quality images x2,x4,x8,x16 smaller, and blur them +-2 pixels offset with gaussian x5 times each. I'm not sure why that, or i do something wrong, it worked much faster and better quality for me when i do +-5 pixels offset x1 with just ordinary blur. Then i just place back all those images together and i get bloom. Still what i got isn't exactly what showed on screenshot in that tutorial, still looks not bad imho. Secret of good picturing is ofcourse in number of less quality images i use, and blur type, help of anyone expirienced in that appreciated) 4. Original 16 bit buffer makes lot's of distortions, i can't even normal blur with it, mostly because red and blue get 5 bits, and green 6 bits, in big +- blurs i get whole screen simplified to 4 simple greenied colors .. I used to solve that accumulation buffer, but there is another problem - when i'm lowering viewport to x2,x4 etc less size, to blur my less-quality-images, i get feeling that accumulation buffer still works with whole buffer, not part of it, so bluring x16 smaller image is same speed like orginal image, still not sure about that. So a problem arises. Is that better to raise my main buffer rbg to something big enough to avoid artefacts and work with textures for a blur effect, or it's better to use accumulation buffer instead?

Looks like i'm on my own))) No one knows, or it's top-secret game-developer info))

im not to sure what your problem is, not fast enuf i assume.
the fastest method, with acceptable results is

grab the framebuffer texC
setup 2 textures say 1/4 the size of your window texA,texB

-- start --
with a fragment shader that blurs vertically
draw texC as a fulltexturesized quad
this results as texA

with a fragment shader that blurs horizontally
draw texA as a fulltexturesized quad
this results as texB

now u can either goto start + repeat or else use texB + draw a fullscreen quad

Problem when i go for speed, quality goes down so fast it's not acceptable to watch )). There must be some "trick" to make it both fast with good quality, still i'm not so smart to figure this out myself

Most glow-effect tutorials say you just need to copy ur screen to texture and blur it sometimes, but they always quiet that 5x blurs so slow so they can't be used in game. Drawing x2,x4,x8 smaller textures is a trick for me, and yes - it makes both - fast and nice glow effect. But as in topic name "suggestion requiest" i need any tip of how to increase perfomance, keeping good quality, and "hard places" i put in "1.","2." in the top of the topic.


There is also "edged" problem i not mentioned yet, here it is:

First blures layer looks ok:


But on last ones i get it edged:



Here i marked edges i talk about:



When scene changes dinamycally those edges seen clear enough, and looks like ugly artefact.

Still in original tutorial where i get this techicue from, last layer still looks fine without any edges:

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Next problem is i need to use accumulation buffer to blur and add layers of glow together, because original buffer bit depth isn't enough and i get green-colored artefacts. And maybe i just don't know some command, but accumulation buffer even when my viewport is small, copies whole buffer, not a part of it, so if i blur 4x4 image with accumulation buffer i get it slow like i blur whole screen.....



[Edited by - Centurion on February 20, 2007 2:10:40 AM]