Additive blending
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Additive blending is a technique for making translucent objects that does not require an alpha channel. When objects are drawn with additive blending, the texture of the object is simply added to the contents of the frame buffer (rather than replacing them as normal). Additive blending is most suited to creating glowing objects, since due to the addition they will show up even in a dark environment.
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