Well, as I haven’t bumped into this trick before, and I figured it out all by myself, I thought to share my knowledge
Generating a good looking sun with halos can be quite tedious job, but gladly, you can use another method:
Spotlight with “halo” set on and pointed directly at te camera.
the sun in this image was made with “HaloInt” set to 2.0 and “SpotSize” set to 25.0: http://www23.brinkster.com/ondoval/aur_ruma.jpg
(cut-and-paste the url…)
now, as you can see, it looks ooglee… this is because the sky was done with “World” settings… I don’t know why it does that, but it does. We don’t want that, don’t we?
Voilá! You got yourself a nice sun
The important part is that the spot light MUST point rather directly at the camera, so that it looks like sphere, and not just weird blob.
bah, yahoo… yaBOO!!.. they load fer u cause u have them stored in yer temp files already =)
maybe link us to an html page wit hthe same text and images?
that should work…
Second image is definitely much better, and probably better than a single vertex placed in the center of the sun with its own halo, but correctly pointing the spot would need him to track the camera, or you’ll have problems in animating it :).
Yep, it would be a quite tedious job making an animation with this (maybe with a pythons script, but I don’t use it so I don’t know), but it works fine with stills.
I made the tutorial into a webpage, in case anyone’ s interested: http://www23.brinkster.com/ondoval
