Impact effect shader

Unity Engine
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Hi All,

I have a question about a certain effect and if it is achieved using shaders.

The effect in the picture is a glow on a sprite texture when the ship gets hit by a laser. The ships gains a glow on the hit point and that glow slowly dissipates. There is also a lightning effect on the texture when the ship is disabled.

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The effect can be seen throughout the video below. The still I made is from around 4 minutes.

My question: is this effect achieved by using shaders and what is it called? Are there existing shaders that do this available?

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The shield impact?

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No, the impact on the ship itself. In the picture you can see that part of it is glowing as if it were very hot.