   Not sure what this effect is,  A texture based glow or somthing. give me a hitn on th
  I've been lookign over some Games to help me deside what effects i want to write for my game.  and this cought my eye. http://media.teamxbox.com/games/ss/1167/full-res/1123193732.jpgIt's a beautiful render, but my question is about the glowing blue lights on his suit,  how is this done?   
  this is simple HDR, where the blue lines haves high intensity (and become blurred because of the bloom and tone mapping). See the DirectX SDK for a demo on this.Regards,Kenzo   ;  I wouldn't say it is HDR, in fact, the whole image does't seem to be rendered in high dynamic range. I would rather say that it is a simple bloom. The mesh has its bloom map which is then blurred in screen space and alpha blended over the final scene.   