Volumetric Lighting

[beaker]

I would look into doing godrays in post. You can spend days getting proper godrays because volumetric light is so damn slow. There are may plugins for all the major compositors that do them in seconds and you dont have to wait 5 minutes between slow renders to see the changes.

[WhiteMeat]

What are godrays? Is there anyway you could describe the process, or point me in the direction of some tutorials or docs on it?

thanks for the reply !

WhiteMeat

[beaker]

Godrays is another name for volumetric light( Usually when light shines through clouds or something like its comming from god).

Genarts makes a bunch of 2d compsitor plugins that do them, plus many others:
http://www.genarts.com/
http://www.genarts.com/picture-index-sparks.html
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/tinderbox1_plugs_pics.html
http://www.trapcode.com/products_shine.html

[Norb]

or you could make them with geometry and a glow which render super quick, although if something passes through them you won't get any shadows happening..

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