Blender Market – Flares Wizard

What is Flares Wizard ?

Flares Wizard is an add-on for creating realistic lens flares quickly and easily in Blender (Cycles, Eevee).

Why I created this add-on?

It's sad that in a fantastic software like Blender with all its features we can't create decent lens flares.
That's why I decided to create something similar to Optical flares for Bender.

Do I need those "Lens flares"?

Lens flares are the light scattered in lens systems through generally unwanted image formation mechanisms, such as internal reflection and scattering from material inhomogeneities in the lens.
It's an effect that happen in real cameras, just like depth of field and chromatic aberration, in the world of CG we try to mimic those effects to add more realism. However, if used badly it may destroy a nice piece of art.
This effect is heavily used in the cinema industry, commercials, motion graphics...

Features:

Real-time preview: Design and see the result in the 3D viewport.
Super fast rendering: it needs only 1 sample!
Custom presets: 32 presets.
Save, load: you can easily save your creation and reuse it any time, or even share it.
Animation ready: The add-on generates an advanced rig to control the lens flares.
Camera border detection: if the lens flare is no longer visible by the camera you can make it fadeout.
Obstacles detection: when the lens flares is obscured by a 3D object it will disappear.
Blinking : make the lens flare blink.

Limitations:

The lens flare is a shader on a Plane, so it will be affected by the depth of field (dof), and the Bloom effect in Eevee and the other effects, depending on your scene you may render the lens flare separately then merge it with your render later.
The Obstacles detection feature is NOT real time, that's why it requires an animation to work (it doesn't make sense to have dynamic obstacles detection on a still frame).