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- Glenn Saunders (krishna@primenet.com) wrote:
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- : I went back and decided to see just what was up with the flare system.
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- : It seems as though it is impossible to get a tight ball of central light,
- : even white, without also getting a lot of peripheral flare haze if all
- : you do is set central glow on. You really have to push it hard over 100%
- : to get the central glow to be opaque enough to not allow objects behind
- : it to show through.
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- Glenn,
- Try using more than one flare at a time in the same spot. With
- the flare intensity set between 10-20% one can get a very intense spot
- without all of the 'haze pollution' you seem to be getting. With a lot of
- flares offset slightly (in position), you can fill quite a large area with a
- very hot looking glow without obscuring the rest of the frame. In fact,
- with multiple flares (each with different settings) you can use the flare
- intensity envelopes to animate each component of the flare independently
- and get some pretty amazing effects that you can't get with single flares.
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- Good Luck,
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- Jason Bickerstaff
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- Free Range Digital Imaging
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