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making lights “visible” in AE
Anyone know how I can make my spotlights ‘visible’. Meaning: how can I make the actual lightbeams visible without the light actually hitting another layer. I’ve managed to create something like it by drawing a lightbeam in Illustrator and then connecting a spotlight to that layer with After Effects. I even manage to get the light to follow the path of the lightbeam-image by using expressions. I was wondering if there is another possibility though. Maybe I could add some effects to the spotlight layer which would create the same effect with much less work…
cheers!
ps: Aaron and Andrew, I really enjoy your Tutorials! Thanks for the good work!
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Trapcode Lux.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Lux is the slick way to do it, but if your a cheap-skate (like me) try this script Don’t let the script part scare you, add the script to the script folder then File>Run Script), the from an earlier post:
yikesmikes
Date: Jul 30, 2006 at 10:46:20 pm
Subject: Spot Light Script, new to me…Wow, I just found this Script for Volumetric Light, and since I’m Lux-less, this is great.
It makes that cone of light from a spot light in AE 3D, and it uses Fractal Noise to get a foggy like tindel effect (if you tweak it a bit), or you can get spooky fog. Very nice. Maybe this is well known already but I stumbled on it and its perfect for a project.
https://www.petertorpey.com/tutorials/volume_light/
and they talk about it here:
https://aenhancers.com/viewtopic.php?t=343
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Great Stuff! Thanks for the really quick help! Got the spotlightbeams kicking and really like the way things are looking now!
Cheers
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