LIGHTHOUSE effect

[Jason Jenkins]

Put a light in the top of the lighthouse, animate it around with a null and add Trapcode Lux.

[Brad Jones]

Thanks for the quick reply. I’m not really familiar with the Trapcode Lux, what is that?

Thanks,

Brad

J. Brad Jones
BBB Communications
http://www.bbbtv12.com
http://www.wyshtv.com

[Darby Edelen]

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

Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
Aptos, CA

[Mike Clasby]

1) Lux is the slick way to go, but here is the only alternative to I know of.

https://www.petertorpey.com/tutorials/volume_light/

Click on the link at the bottom of the page, the second to last sentence is the “Download the script” link. Put the .jsx file into the AE Scripts Folder. An earlier user of this had rendering problems,

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_read_post.cgi?forumid=2&postid=886154

when he copied the Script Text file with his Safari using “Copy File”, he got “funny little text objects” between each line of the expressions, when he deleted these everything was OK. I just downloaded the .jsx like I said and all was fine.

This is the only soution I know of for the Luxless.

2) Or you can try CC Spotlight, and put the

[Brad Jones]

Thanks for ALL the help guys! I’ll let you know if I was successful in using any of the methods.

Thanks,

Brad

J. Brad Jones
BBB Communications
http://www.bbbtv12.com
http://www.wyshtv.com

[Jon Okerstrom]

Actually, I’ve already been there and done that for a recent project.

Lux is one great solution, but there is another good one. I did the beam with Tinderbox T_beam. I used the rotating beacon to reveal the client logo and gave it some glow every time the beam passed behind it.

I built the Lighthouse using Zaxwerks Invigorator and a single custom bevel. I threw in some animated sky and Psunami for the water. It worked very well.

Jon Okerstrom
Zaxwerks Forum Co-Host

[Jason Jenkins]

Sounds cool. I’d love to see a clip!

[Jon Okerstrom]

Here you go.

https://homepage.mac.com/jokerstrom1/eMOTIONgfx/iMovieTheater68.html

Be patient for the file to load – it’s about 6 megs in its current form and not designed for fast-load.

Jon

[Julian Sixx]

Hi Jon

it looks pretty cool!Well done 😉

BTW: here is a trapcode sample project file
https://www.trapcode-people.net/filedetails.php?fileid=192

[Jon Okerstrom]

For me, the devil is in the details. The light beam effect is not in the same 3D space as the lighthouse, but if you closely examine the top of the lighthouse, the beam does appear to make that transition from in-front-of to behind. I did this by splitting the beam layer and changing the opacity of the sections duuring the critical phase. The light beam also appears to affect the light on the front of the lighthouse. It doesn’t, but I used another bit of trickery to fake it.

Jon Okerstrom
Zaxwerks Forum Co-host