Tutorial/Asset: Quick Basic Flares
Added 2023-11-22 04:00:31 +0000 UTCJust a quick experiment in trying to get the CG to match the live action a bit closer! Also a good reminder for me of the usefulness of render layers. It'd be fun to actually dive a bit deeper into lens flares at some point.
Here's the assets I'm talking about in the video (quick flares/spotlights/haze ball for blender). You just have to target the constraint to the active camera.
Comments
For obscuring the flares, i wonder if you could render a depth map and do something like a greater-than followed by multiply, to create a mask/factor for the flare layer... Render layers seem to be underused generally in blender, games use offscreen renders all the time for this kind of thing!
bonzairob
2024-01-02 17:39:13 +0000 UTCloved the video! ty ian! agh render layers, glad to hear im not the only one that avoided them. i appreciate having that process in the video here..
Stephan
2024-01-02 08:58:50 +0000 UTCThanks Ian! Now stop overthinking.
Clint Shelton
2023-12-01 03:08:56 +0000 UTCawesome as always Ian! any chance you will be sharing some mocaps ? :)) geting decent anims is such a big bottle neck
2023-11-25 15:49:08 +0000 UTCAwesome, Ian! A lot of your challenges are very fixable with geometry nodes. Just like you suspected. Honestly, I think you'd get comfortable with it pretty quickly. It might be like the view layers; seems complicated for a little bit until you find some easy workflows with it.
Robin Ruud
2023-11-23 01:38:49 +0000 UTCCould you not render the flare layer with an orthographic camera at the same location as the perspective camera to remove the perspective distortion along the flare render pass?
J McNulty
2023-11-22 18:15:08 +0000 UTC
