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Lens Flare with Real Time Preview in Blender

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Real time lens flare for Blender

Dylan Whiteman presents an OSL shader for the creation of lens flares. The cool thing of his setup is that it'll give you a real time preview.

Dylan writes:

I have been using Blender for several years and have recently started to learn OSL - Open Shader Language.

As a first project I embarked upon creating a lens-flare shader for Blender. In the process I came across a lens-flare shader, written for the Renderman language by Larry Gritz & Tony Apodaca.

I decided to try and port this to OSL - and to my surprise after a day of tinkering it worked! Along the way I added a few features, such as user definable images for lens-flare elements and have got to a point where the shader can now be released. Details about how to download and use this shader are given below - along with video tutorial links.

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About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

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