volumetric light in effect

[Nicholas Toth]

http://www.trapcode.com

Its called LUX. It isn’t free, but if you need it it is worth the money.

[Steve Roberts]

And if you were asking about warez, please don’t.

[Mike Clasby]

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.

[Ron Lindeboom]

We remove any and all posts that have to do with pirate software and so if that was what you were referring to by your “is there somewhere I can download it for free” remark, you will find no help here to do things like that.

Regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Darren Gardner]

I tried out the tutorial for volumetric lighting found on http://www.petertorpey.com and rendered out the end product and it looked great. Then I modified the position of “light 1” and “Light 1 POI”, by setting them back into Z space and mapped out a sweeping camera move in which the volumetric light moves in and out of frame as the camera tracks another object.
Here’s the problem: When I render it out, After Effects freezes up. So, I did a number of test renders excluding different layers to try and find the problem layer. It turns out its the Lens Flare that’s causing the crash, but I’m not sure why its causing the crash or how to fix it. My hunch is, it has something to do with the ‘.toComp([0,0,0])’ part of the expression applied to Flare Center. Any suggestions would really help. Thanks!

[Steve Roberts]

You should start a new thread, Darren.

[Darren Gardner]

Sorry. It’s my first time posting. Thanks.