Glowing light [HELP] :'(

Hi.
i am just creating a 2d light bar(or you can say a rod of light) in unity. i have no idea how to do it. I have actually used light shader script to get the bar to glow. is there any other way to do it other than that?

the light bar must glow inside the bar. the background can be white or light colours. How to make it glow in that case? (the light bar will be moving up and down)

Any help will be highly appreciated. thankyou

i find this asset on github quite usefull for 2d sprite glowing, maybe it helps you aswell!

Sprite Glow Github Link


or try this with sprites

 Shader "Sprites/ShinyDefault"
 {
     Properties
     {
         [PerRendererData] _MainTex("Sprite Texture", 2D) = "white" {}
         _Color("Tint", Color) = (1,1,1,1)
         _ShineLocation("ShineLocation", Range(0,1)) = 0
         _ShineWidth("ShineWidth", Range(0,1)) = 0
         [MaterialToggle] PixelSnap("Pixel snap", Float) = 0
     }
 
         SubShader
     {
         Tags
     {
         "Queue" = "Transparent"
         "IgnoreProjector" = "True"
         "RenderType" = "Transparent"
         "PreviewType" = "Plane"
         "CanUseSpriteAtlas" = "True"
     }
 
         Cull Off
         Lighting Off
         ZWrite Off
         Blend One OneMinusSrcAlpha
 
         Pass
     {
         CGPROGRAM
 #pragma vertex vert
 #pragma fragment frag
 #pragma multi_compile _ PIXELSNAP_ON
 #include "UnityCG.cginc"
 
     struct appdata_t
     {
         float4 vertex   : POSITION;
         float4 color    : COLOR;
         float2 texcoord : TEXCOORD0;
     };
 
     struct v2f
     {
         float4 vertex   : SV_POSITION;
         fixed4 color : COLOR;
         float2 texcoord  : TEXCOORD0;
     };
 
     fixed4 _Color;
 
     v2f vert(appdata_t IN)
     {
         v2f OUT;
         OUT.vertex = mul(UNITY_MATRIX_MVP, IN.vertex);
         OUT.texcoord = IN.texcoord;
         OUT.color = IN.color * _Color;
 #ifdef PIXELSNAP_ON
         OUT.vertex = UnityPixelSnap(OUT.vertex);
 #endif
 
         return OUT;
     }
 
     sampler2D _MainTex;
     sampler2D _AlphaTex;
     float _AlphaSplitEnabled;
     float _ShineLocation;
     float _ShineWidth;
 
     fixed4 SampleSpriteTexture(float2 uv)
     {
         fixed4 color = tex2D(_MainTex, uv);
 
 #if UNITY_TEXTURE_ALPHASPLIT_ALLOWED
         if (_AlphaSplitEnabled)
             color.a = tex2D(_AlphaTex, uv).r;
 #endif //UNITY_TEXTURE_ALPHASPLIT_ALLOWED
 
         
     
         
         float lowLevel = _ShineLocation - _ShineWidth;
         float highLevel = _ShineLocation + _ShineWidth;
         float currentDistanceProjection = (uv.x + uv.y) / 2;
         if (currentDistanceProjection > lowLevel && currentDistanceProjection < highLevel) {
             float whitePower = 1- (abs(currentDistanceProjection - _ShineLocation ) / _ShineWidth);
             color.rgb +=  color.a * whitePower;
         }
         
         return color;
     }
 
     fixed4 frag(v2f IN) : SV_Target
     {
         fixed4 c = SampleSpriteTexture(IN.texcoord) * IN.color;
         c.rgb *= c.a;
 
     return c;
     }
         ENDCG
     }
     }
 }