volume light in 3d space

[Erik Pontius]

Not free, but Trapcode LUX is a great plugin creating for volumetric lighting. You can download the demo and try it out.

Erik

[Jerzy Drozda jr]

hey

you might want to check my tutorial on volumetric lights:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/drozda_jerzy/VolumeLight.php

and also this one:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/drozda_jerzy/CEPixelSampler.php

you can try using them in conjunction to create the effect.

also you can emulate the Lux plugin by simply creating a
layer with a circle effect, and then applying CC Fast Radial Blur with a bit of offset from the center of the circle.

hope that helps a bit.

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maltaannon.com – Free After Effects Video Tutorials and more

[Mike Clasby]

If you aint got the Bucks for Lux, here’s a freebie, but I don’t think I will really do what you want, cutting the beam od light off with Pillars, I too think Maltaannon’s is the best shot, and also Lux doesn’t work on 3D layers as far as I know.

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. You add a light of choice (I

[Kayak]

hi everybody and thank you for the help.

after a lot of trying i will do something with lux.

yikesmikes you are right that lux behalfs not as a real 3d layer and shine threw the pillars but i will make a precomp of the pillars and take it to mask out the lux layer.
i also tried the peter torpey tutorial but since my oriental windows are a lot bigger than the startbeam of the volume light i layed it behind the window in 3d space and it does not worked like i need it, because the lightbeam did not show through the window into the room (maybe my mistake, but i