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Lighting Effect Question
Hello all! I am trying to create a composition with practical lighting in the scene. I want to create some par cans that I will use to “light” the set. I already have spot lights created that cast the lighting the way I want, but now I am trying to figure out how to make it appear that the lights are coming from the par cans that will be visible in the scene. Does anyone know of a way to do this and have it look as real as possible is AE CS3? I hope I am explaining this clearly enough. I do appreciate your help and time!
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Jeremey @ DI -
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Are you talking about compositing lightbemas on footage of parcans, or is this an entire virtual set in AE, where you want some 3D objects of par cans ?
Either way, you should take a look at Trapcode Lux which will create volumetric beams of light for your spotlights.
I’ve been experimenting a bit, to see if I could model a half decent light fixture using only flat solids and shapelayers and here’s what I’ve come up with so far:
I added an extra blue light to give the fixtures themselves some hilites, then added an identical but “negative” blue light that affects all the non-fixture layers.
check out the projectfile here:
https://www.vandueren.be/forumstuff/lux_parcans/luxtest.aep
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