light rays thru words/letters

[Aanarav Sareen]

Do you have the pro version of AE 6.5? If so, install the Cycore plugins and use one of the light ray filters.

[Josh Miller]

It’s called volumetric lighting. Trapcode’s ‘Shine’ plug-in is what your looking for.

https://www.trapcode.com/products_shine.html

Josh
rainorsun.com

[Axel Rogge]

Not a perfect but helping way is to copy your text beneath the original text, i.e. use white as fill color, than use the radial blur effect of ae and turn the method from circular to (ahem) “rays” (sorry, i