Hollow knight light / blur

Hi, just wondering if anyone knows a thing or two about these questions?

Thanks!

Hi Eses, Infact I thought to keep the question clear without pushing my own experiments.
(Pardon me for no paragraphs, no matter what I do the mark up doesn't take up my lines, so it seems.)

As there are multiple ways to achieve this I merely thought to start a topic in order to share what other people would try.

But I agree, I could have elaborated my approaches.

To sum up my research, narrowed down to the idea/technique I went with: (do note I work on a 3D game, but in a side scrolling fashion)

For the room reveal: Actual lights: The room / scene is pitch black, in the room are 3 or more lights, one at each entrance, one directional light. others to fill up POI's. Depending on which entrance the player is that light gets a positive value. The directional light gets a clamped value based on the center of the room and the distance of the player to gradually light up the scene. This is automatically triggered when the player leaves or enters the room entrances/exits as that gave me the nicest results

For the blur: I made 2 post processing zones, the dark one: has a high bloom effect, the room revealed zone has a lower bloom effect. I was able to nicely tween/lerp between those values. At first my POI lights were a challenges but then I thought to just make those lights very bright when the room was not discovered and simply lower their intensity once the directional light was at full brightness.

For secret rooms I made a script and a dedicated black material that is set to "cutout" and lerp the cut out value when a secret room or area is discovered or not.

Early 2D prototypes: I did a similar blur approach with the zones, but for the room reveal I made sprites based on the room shape, but quickly abandoned that idea as I had to make countless room shape variations. And since my rooms are procedural generated based on a few templates that can be merged together it was rather cumbersome than a real help.

The essence was just to start a topic to see how others would do it ;)

Cheers

I'm looking for the same

It sounds like Post Processing is what you want, if you're doing a 3D game. It's incredibly complex, but once you understand how things work, it's a powerful tool. This is found in the package manager under Unity Registry.