How to create circle warp effect in HWA?

[BrandonC]

As far as I know, this cannot be done, because MMF2's HWA doesn't support the ability to grab pixels behind objects... I don't know why, it seems pretty silly, but yeah. I'm almost positive you need that in order to do this with HWA, correctly at least.

[ruffgang]

Aquaria was not created using MMF2. It was made by Derek Yu and Alec Holowka of Bit Blot.

[MechatheSlag]

Aquaria was not created using MMF2. It was made by Derek Yu and Alec Holowka of Bit Blot.

no one said that bro

[ruffgang]

I see one user Pkeod created game "Aquaria". In trailer of this game I saw circle warp effect. How I can create it? Who can give me example or shader of this effect?
P.S. I am from Russia and can commit errors in the text.

no one said that bro

I'm assuming he thought Aquaria was made by Pkeod and was made using MMF.

[MechatheSlag]

I'm assuming he thought Aquaria was made by Pkeod and was made using MMF.

He didn't say anywhere that he thought he was using MMF, he just asked if it was possible to immitate the effects yo

[ruffgang]

he seemed generally confused. but hey, if you say so, yo.