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Streaming light
Can anyone recommend a plugin or method for creating streams of light that emit from an object? Like if you put a flashlight up to a hole in the wall and the streams of light came through… essentially what the Mystical Lighting pluging does for Photoshop.
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Trapcode’s ‘Shine’ sounds like what your looking for. This is an excellent plugin which creates a ‘stream of light’ effect. Also, if you don’t want to buy Shine you can use AE’s built in version, Radial Blur, which isn’t as good as Shine, but can do the job in many situations.
Hope I’ve helped,
Josh
Josh
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The term is “volumetric lighting”, and the tool of choice would be Trapcode Shine.
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You may be able to achieve a fair result without buying plugins. At one time there was an AE tutorial floating around on this, though I can’t locate it this morning.
This link shows an approach in Photoshop, which might translate to AE ok ..
https://user.fundy.net/morris/?photoshop06.shtml
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Would Trapcode’s “Lux” not apply here as well? Especially for volumetric.
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Hah! Yes, somehow I was assuming that he’d want volumetrics on existing footage, but when using AE’s own 3D lights, Lux is what you’d want.
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