CGTalk - Lens Flare problem

Jon_Pran

12-11-2002, 02:33 PM

I have been testing my image at 640x480 and the lens flares look great. I up it to 3000x2250 for the final, but the flares look horrible. They are the same basic size and shape, but the intensity of all of it looks horrible.

Am I missing something about this?

Thanks.

Oh, I am using the 'rendering effects' attached to omni lights.

Dave Black

12-11-2002, 06:19 PM

Yeah, sadly, render effects such as lense flares are IMAGE based...What that means, is that all the settings you made, including sizes and such, are based on the resolution that you made them at...

It's one area that ticks me off about max.

Try multiplying your values to match the render output. Or make your preview window the same size as the final render.

Or, you could just turn off your shadows, maps, AA, etc, and make a poop load of fullsize test renders.

Yup...it sucks...

Sorry..But good luck!

-3DZ

Jon_Pran

12-11-2002, 07:24 PM

Yeah, that really sucks. Thanks for the reply.
I spent ages getting them right and 2 days trying to duplicate it - no luck. Unfortunately each test render is taking about 20 min with no objects on...ugh!!

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