Tunnel and window glares

Anyone know how to get that tunnel glare effect as seen in the buggy levels, or even more specifically useful to me, thos Combine citadel windows that are a pure white and glow like crazy.

To be more specific-

Buggy levels- in tunnels where theres bright light at the end which is all glaringly bright.

Combine windows- Those lazy rectangles of whiteness which are blindingly bright.

I'm not certain what effect you want in particular, but a lot of the glowy effects on lights are done with env_sprites. You can do a texture filter for sprite and look at the available ones.

I thought that but I think theres more to it, or something more severe. Plus the glow they use acts like sunlight on trees- it grows around objects in front.

the combine windows are probably texture / model based

Fewl, I mean the glowing that blinds you, anyway I think I've worked it out. I'm pretty sure you use an env_sun and make its distance really short and stuff, then use a few glowy things and flares. Although if anyone knows how its really done or a better way I'm still open to suggestions.

An env_sun is certainly quite blinding, and you can set the size of the
sun rather than the distance. You might wanna look at env_lightglow as
well, I've used them a fair bit in echo and find them quite effective.
Consider them a slightly more versatile replacement for env_glow.