Blurred Transparency (Windows 7 Aero style)

Questions & Answers
1

Hi everyone,

is it possible to have objects (simple planes) with blurred transparency, meaning that everything that is behind it will be blurred (like in Windows 7)?

How would I achieve that effect?

Thanks very much in advance

2

Hi, yes it is possible with image effects and render textures. Basically if you have a texture of the background, you can apply a blur shader to it.

To achieve this you could:

  1. Get the rendered background into a render texture, typically through a Camera or you can render with a temporary disabled camera with Camera.Render.
  2. Apply blur to the texture.
  3. Use the texture where you want to use it, for example with GUI.DrawTextureWithTexCoords.