Game Programming using Qt 5 Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Have a go hero – The blur parallax scrolled game view

The blur property is a very nice effect that can be used in many situations. For example, you can try to implement a feature within our elephant game whereby when the user pauses the game (for example, by pressing the P key on the keyboard), the view gets blurred. Make the effect smooth by applying an animation to the effect's radius property.

Another interesting effect is Glow. It renders a colored and blurred copy of the source element. An example use case for games is highlighting some parts of the user interface—you can direct the user's attention to the element (for example, button or badge) by making the element flash periodically:

Window {    //...    Badge {        id: importantBadge anchors.centerIn: ...