Has anyone tryed to render lens flare similar to this article? I found some addons but they’re all very simple compositing effects compared to these ones.
I don’t really see the benefit, given this limitation: “Our current rendering mechanism is optimized to
having a single visible point/directional light source. Area lights can be approximated by a point light and an energy emission proportional to their visibility, but such solutions remain approximate.” That said, Blenders builtin “flares” aren’t really all that usable for this kind of stuff. Some addons may do a better job, but I haven’t tried anything other than the “virus” one (youtube) back in the day - probably don’t even work anymore.
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Tools that I know looks like Photoshop/Illustrator 2D flares. Isn’t suitable for studio work. If I could render something more realist and track a 2D point would be more plausable.