   CAn you tell me what this effect is called?
  http://www.rpgfan.com/pics/eq2/ss-099.jpg  Is this a product of HDR?  (the rays of light passing through the leaves)   
  The rays are almost definately just ordinary alpha blended geometry with a nice ray-of-light texture [smile]Regards,ViLiO   ;  HDR on its own would not cause that.I'm no expert, but I would say those are probably just screen-aligned alpha-blended textured quads/tris.   ;  thanks   ;  The effect is called 'volumetric light', you could Google for that to get some more information.   ;Quote:Original post by PrototypeThe effect is called 'volumetric light', you could Google for that to get some more information.I would say that volumetric lighting is a bit overkill for that patrticular scene. I mean, they want to reach a visual effect of volumetric lighting, but they are just faking it with blended quads.   ;  I believe that even when faking it it's still called Volumetric Lighting. Atleast that's how many others use the terminology, including Epic.   