Glowing Bricks/Blocks

Hi - I'm trying to make blocks that I can light up and colour - when they're activated in-game.

Currently I've got this - where I'm just re-setting the material colour.



But I'm aiming for something closer to this



I can't find a good shader/material to ape this look, and haven't managed to write one myself.
Could someone point me in the right direction ? Cheers

 

Hi Kingbaggot,
You will have to change the emission variable of the material to create a glow effect. If you have the post processing stack (search on asset store) in your project you can use bloom to get a really nice effect.

Here is an example code to change emission:

Code (CSharp):

1.  Material mymat = GetComponent<Renderer>().material;
2.          mymat.SetColor("_EmissionColor", Color.red);

Change 'Color.red' to the colour that you wish.

Hopes this helps!

 

Thanks for that ! I'm already setting my _EmissionColor - what I'm trying to get now is that effect in the mario pic where the centre of the block glows brighter than the edges.

With emission it's lighting up the whole mesh full-tilt. I'll go check out the post processing stack you mentioned as I've not used that much up till now

 

Have got it to this by smoothing out the block and mucking about with a directional light. Still not fancy enough though - am going to start mucking about with the shader I reckon.

 

@kingbaggot
If you want to achieve that, you need to learn some basic modeling and texturing skill. Obviously it's a primitive chamfer box + High glossiness value + Hand painted gradient emissive map and can achieving by using soft brush in PS or SP with just one click.