Simple Motion Blur with Unity 2.6 Free

Unity Engine
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Hi guys. I’m making a 3d person action game, and the main character has the power to slow time down.
Is there a way to apply a motion blur effect to the main character using Unity 2.6 Free? It doesn’t have to be a super cool effect, a simple one should make the trick.

Thanks for your help, bye.

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Without rendertextures, you’re limited to geometric approaches such as this one:

http://research.cs.tamu.edu/keyser/Papers/CGI05Blur-JonesBW.pdf

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Thanks Daniel. In order to make this work into Unity all I have to do is to implement the method on the pdf trough shaders, right?

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Shaders and maybe scripts. I’m pretty good at general programming, and getting Ok at shader programming, and I think it would take me a while. Unity Pro allows much better-looking, easier-to-implement and better-performing options, so you should consider getting Pro if you can. If your time isn’t worth money, though, you should be able to pull off decent geometry-based blurring effects using something similar to the method in that paper.

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Maybe one day I’ll get the Pro version, but now I’m working on the first level of a prototype of the game for my university. I’ve never programmed shaders, so I guess it won’t be that easy to write a motion blur effect for me at this moment. Anyway, I’m downloading Unity 3 Pro Trial and I’ll take a look at the motion blur effect built-in.

Thanks for your help Daniel.

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Talk to your university about getting Pro licenses, even if you’re just starting out now. They’re probably too late to get a proposal together for the education giveaway, but there are educational prices all the time.

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I’ll talk to my professor about this opportunity and hopefully we’ll be able to work with the Pro version.