Creating Lens Flare / Light in DF

#1

Hey guys,

With my other thread i dont want to start a flame war
which app is better - i really like fusion and
in many many fields it is far superior compared to combustion.

But again an example - creating a cool good looking Lens Flare effect / Light Effect
seems to be a pain in the ass compared to combustion.

As an example, i have a flashlight and want to create the light effect in Fusion.
When i use combustion (3D Lens Flare) i really get an adequate results in a minute
but in Fusion… no way or in other words you have to spend much more time
for such an “easy” task. Another example would be to lighten a light bulb in Fusion.

In my view the Hotspot operator is not doing a good job compared to other packages.
I just cant ceate some nice looking lightstreak effects in Fusion.

Something like that

http://www.cameron-photo.com/files/gimgs/20_lensflare0703.jpg

Any now imagine i dont want the bottom reflection part of the lens flare.

Your comments are really appreciated…

cheers

NAIK

#2

if you got some after effects plugins for creating lensflares (knoll light factory, sapphire) you can use it in fusion

for the streaks you could make a FastNoise with a very thin long noise (set one scale to maybe .05 and the other to 20 or so) and feed this to a “coordinate space node” set to “polar to rectangular”

or try a fastnoise followed by a directional blur

this is just for starting, after that you can play around to get some nice effect

#3

Hey mate, you again :wink:

To be honest, for me thats to much hassle for that kind of “simple” effect.
Imagine you want to animate the lens flare - i mean
just look at other software packages - in my opinion its
a little bit “lame” that fusion doesnt come with a ready to go package
for that effect.
Of course you are right its defiantely possible to create that kind of stuff
on your own with all that tools - but for an stone old effect like lens flare?
come on…

best regards

NAIK

#4

The hotspot tool probably hasn’t been updated since Fusion 2 was released back in the dark ages of Windows NT. That being said, the tool still offers lots of flexibility and can be stacked to produce the effect you are looking for. Once you have an understanding of how the tool works, it’s pretty quick to bang out a flare that you’re looking for. And as always, saving it as a setting or macro for later use is a valid option too. Here’s a quick version to simulate what you posted as an example.

#5

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