LIGHTING CHANGED WITH TILE USED

OK, title is a little confusing, but I had no other way to point out what I was looking for. I'm trying to see if someone could walk me through making a script that would match to what tile I used so I could create a nice glow for whatever I used. Example being, I want my lava to glow in my game, give it more of a volcanic feel, but no events work well and if I should 'need' another event on top of it or below it (say, for example at the bottom or top of your waterfalls, etc.) then I wouldn't be able to have the glow event there.

So, I was thinking that there would have to be a way to get a script made that would notice the tile used, i.e. the lava/water tile or the waterfall/lava-fall tile, and then create the appropriate glow for that tile used. For the water, if correctly used, could glow a slight summers day glow that could (in essence) be reflecting the sun or the moon, depending on the time of day tied into your game. Or, for the lava, it would give off a real warm or fiery hot feel to it...

What got me thinking about this was a game I had seen a while ago and been following ever since:
http://rpgmaker.net/games/1647/images/8203/

I've tried to figure out how their doing that, but I just can't; so, I was hoping someone would be willing to walk me through how to possibly make a script like that (tired of the same old look in my game, trying hard to get it to not match everyone else's - thus the reason for the 200+ custom made chars, etc.)