• Maxon Cinema 4D

  Headlights Through Fog

  Posted by Aron Kantor on December 5, 2006 at 4:53 pm

  I am making an animation of headlights driving down a road at night through the woods. I would like to add some fog in the road, with the headlights shining through it (not just adding visibility and noise in the headlights, because the camera has to be moving through it), and am not sure if I should do this in C4D or AE…and either way, haven’t yet figured out a good way to ceate the effect (I don’t have PyroCluster, although I do have Particular in AE).

  Any thoughts?

  Thanks!

  Mylenium replied 19 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Brian Jones

  December 6, 2006 at 1:09 am

  One way would be to use an omni light with visible noise for the fog then move a spot light with the identical noise through it. Just make the spot brighter than the omni.

  Check out this (simple) example https://homepage.mac.com/bdjones/.Public/headlights.zip
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  Mylenium

  December 6, 2006 at 8:45 am

  If you have both tools, use them both. I’d render the lights in a separate pass and create the rest of the effects in AE. When you include a depth pass in your renders, you can create any kind of fog and diffusion effects in AE. You should also add some Glow to your scene to sell the illusion (reflected light bleeding into the fog pretty much looks like Glow).

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