Subject: Re: Lens Flare question
Date: Thu, 12 May 94 16:29:10 
From: djm2@isis.msstate.edu@ra.msstate.edu (Dan Murrell Jr.)

Andrew P. Vogel said on May 12 :

> I made a simple animation (project available, if you want it) of a
> flaring light moving BEHIND a torus that had been set on its side. The
> flares look great, animate well, BUT when the light source passes behind
> the torus, the lens flares are not interrupted, as they should be.

Is the actual light source itself being blocked?  If the actual point of
light is still visible, the flare should be there.  If not, that's
definitely a bug. :)  It sounds like they only check if the light is in the
visible plane, and no checking to see if it's behind an object.  If so,
they need to fix that soon-- it certainly reduces the usefulness of the
lens flare effect.  I bet Mark Thompson is laughing somewhere.. :)

Dan

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