Wanted: Aura Object

Yeah just thinking out loud here, something like the dropshadow object, but giving light instead of shadow, would be cool.
You would want it to be larger than the attached object, and well a blur would be nice, but that may not be doable without a shader.

Well, you blur a copy of your object in Photoshop and set it to additive...

Well see the nice thing about the dropshadow object is that it uses the current frame, so if you have multiple frames you don't have to double your vram.
Also an opacity setting would be sufficient. A blur is automatically going to mean there's an alpha channel.
Sorry, not to be rude, but I already know all the work arounds, this is just me keeping hope alive.