Yay! Bump.
This would be very helpful for those generic platformer effects, and also those photo editors on Scratch.
They should probably also add this block to change the colour of the glow:

set glow color to [#addadd]:: looks

This is a “running out of ideas to say” bump.

support it looks cool
maybe you could do like this?

change [glow v] effect by (25)

and these :

change glow effect color to [red]  :: looks

change glow effect color to [#FF0000] :: looks // Also works with a color picker and hex code

k0d3rrr wrote:

Yay! Bump.
This would be very helpful for those generic platformer effects, and also those photo editors on Scratch.
They should probably also add this block to change the colour of the glow:

set glow color to [#addadd]:: looks

oh i thought of that too its a bit different though

Still bumping topics to the front page because why not?

Support. Why?
1. Because it's literally impossible to make a workaround without COMPLEX PEN and even THAT has problems (i.e.

<touching [sprite v] ?>

doesn't care about the pen)
2. New Scratchers! Rejoice! Your platformer can be made better!

rdococ wrote:

While I do love the idea of adding extra graphical effects based on what is currently difficult to do in Scratch, such as stretch and saturation, a ‘neon halo’ effect can be solved using one clone to follow the sprite wherever it goes. There are problems with this workaround when it comes to layering and clones, but those can be solved by other suggestions which could solve those problems in general, and not just for this specific effect.

300 clone limit
Also maybe you can change the blur of the glow/outline

Support, I don't see good workarounds currently but it would be really useful. Altrough I am thinking how it would look and about the mockup… But anywasy, support!

Neon would look nice sometimes, so I would like this.

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Cool thing they need to add! I like the outline glow idea.

support because this scratch feature can be usefull for my shooting game where the crosshair should be glowing

I just thought we could use gradient but I realised that it doesn't give good neon effect.
Support

Moon-cat90 wrote:

SebthedestroyerTNT wrote:

-snip-

I don't think that is necessary, there are lots of workarounds, so, no support.

Yes, we do have workarounds but they are very hard to code if we wand something like this:

Adn1936 wrote:

I'm thinking like this.

hi

SebthedestroyerTNT wrote:

I think we have a good number of effects in the Scratch editor but I have an idea for a new effect. The glow effect. All sprites by default will have a glow effect of 0. If you increase the glow effect, it will make the sprite have a more neon-looking effect and have an outline of a thickness depending on the value you give it. This would help me (and I'm sure a lot of other people would make use of it too!) make really cool menu buttons where, instead of changing size, it's glow effect is made smaller. I got this idea from martcm.itch.io and I was looking at one of the projects and the sprites had this really cool glow effect to it wich made your character look like it was glowing and i thought: “Wow, this would be really cool if it were in Scratch!”.

many workarounds exist, but many are complicated and don't work for some things, support

AmberdroptheWarrior wrote:

SebthedestroyerTNT wrote:

mtech22 wrote:

Workaround:

change [brightness] effect by (25)

That's not a work around in the cases where I think it'd look good.

I'm pretty sure you'd have to use the brightness and saturation block, and the saturation block does not exist.

Then use

set [color v] effect to (0)

mybearworld wrote:

Adn1936 wrote:

I'm thinking like this.

Wait, blue? I would picture it orange… support, that would be looking nice, and be useful for a lot of effects.
For everyone saying “This is unneeded”, when did you last use the mosaic effect?

_tenfictions_ wrote:

support

Provide a reason please.

woah man dont dog on the mosaic effect
support

Support! I think it'd look quite cool

Support, this would be super helpful!

Support. Would be an awesome effect to add for those 80's themed games

Moon-cat90 wrote:

(#3)

SebthedestroyerTNT wrote:

-snip-

I don't think that is necessary, there are lots of workarounds, so, no support.

Like what?