What is this effect called?

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Hi everyone,

I am looking for a way to achieve the effect posted below. Specifically, the effect on the outside of the object in the image. The effect that kind of looks like it stretches out the colors.

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You can view the effect in motion here: http://youtu.be/UUXBCdt5IPg (around the 1:03 mark is a nice view of it).

So I may look into this further, does anyone know what this effect is called, how to achieve this effect, is it a shader, etc? I know absolutely nothing about this effect besides what it looks like, and I think it could improve the aesthetic of my game.

Any information would be helpful.

Thank you in advance,
-Nick

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You could probably use light cookies to get similar effects

EDIT: Actually some of the stuff in the beginning looked like caustics and shadows. Then there was like a fish with transparent skin.

EDIT 2: There’s also a lot of chromatic aberration (light being refracted inside the transparent skin or lens). Chromatic aberration - Wikipedia

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Unity has an equivalent in the vignetting and chromatic aberration shader (Unity Pro only). It’s a different color (purple and green instead of orange and blue) but also lets you darken and blur the edges of the screen.
http://docs.unity3d.com/Documentation/Components/script-Vignetting.html

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Yeah chromatic aberration, or color fringing, appears to be the effect I was looking for. Of course, the shader is pro only.

Thank you guys :slight_smile:

  • Nick