How to create a blurred animated background

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

I am just looking at one of the latest game releases on iOS built with Corona SDK, “Chip Chain”, and on one of the screens, it has a really cool animated background screen, with poker chips spinning and falling to the bottom of the screen (easy enough to do so far)… but the whole background, including the animated poker chips, is “blurred”.

Can anyone shed any light on how to achieve this in Corona?

I experimented with overlays with varying settings of the “alpha” property, but I couldn’t get anywhere close to the effect.

Any ideas?? [import]uid: 60457 topic_id: 33097 reply_id: 333097[/import]

#2

I believe, as noted in their guest blog post, that some of the code in their app is native which allowed them to use Objective-C to get their required effects. They are on the Enterprise program for that. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33097 reply_id: 131460[/import]

#3

Having said that, here’s one way if you don’t want to go native:

https://developer.coronalabs.com/forum/2011/09/07/opengl-blur-filter-available-canyon-country-app [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33097 reply_id: 131461[/import]

#4

I believe, as noted in their guest blog post, that some of the code in their app is native which allowed them to use Objective-C to get their required effects. They are on the Enterprise program for that. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33097 reply_id: 131460[/import]

#5

Having said that, here’s one way if you don’t want to go native:

https://developer.coronalabs.com/forum/2011/09/07/opengl-blur-filter-available-canyon-country-app [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 33097 reply_id: 131461[/import]