Optical Flares for Blackmagic Fusion

[SecondMan]

Any plans on making it so we can just input an Alpha and it takes care of all of that setup?

While that is as fine a request as any other, nothing stops you from making your own quick Macro, or even just a setup that you can save and retrieve in mere seconds, right?

Suppose the functionality were already built in, you wouldn't have learned this cool trick about the Probe Modifier today...

[bowserlm]

True!

[nsf]

did you put the templates in

C:\ProgramData\Blackmagic Design\Fusion

omg I've been putting it into roaming/ Appdata

ok now it works fine

[andromeda_girl]

looks very promising but the question is whether or not this works in 3D space or is another 2D space only lens flare toolkit?
Ideally it needs to have the ability of being locked to geo for realistic spatial performance in a shot, and I am not reading [or seeing screenshots of] that capability.
if it does this, then let's see it because I really want to say I'm sold on this!
Au

[ShadowMaker SdR]

Serious question: Lens flares only originate inside the lens anyway. So what's the need for them to work in 3D space?

[SirEdric]

To lock the X/Y position of a 2D tool to X/Y/Z in 3D you could always use the good ole Locator3D....

[JUNE]

To lock the X/Y position of a 2D tool to X/Y/Z in 3D you could always use the good ole Locator3D....

Yes, that's right!

[andromeda_girl]

so you can position them to geo in 3D space!
why is this so controversial?

[sepu66]

you can grab the 3D position with a locator in 3d and connect it to X and Y position of the optical flare as sirEdric mentioned.

[bowserlm]

Nice thing that Optical Flares has, which is why I think people are missing this feature, is that Optical Flares will also scale the flare up or down based on it coming closer or further from the camera in 3D, so it's not just translating the 3D to screen space XY.

[SecondMan]

Lens flares don't do that

But if you want it, you can probe the z depth at the 2D coordinates of the lens flare origin to drive size properties.

[Midgardsormr]

Or use the Distance3D Modifier Fuse to get the distance between the camera and the target. Or Pythagoras in an expression if you don't have the Fuse.

[andromeda_girl]

2D tracked lens flares enter and exit frame differently than 3D placed flares do.

[SirEdric]

Couldn't that be compensated for by rendering/using overscan?

[SecondMan]

2D tracked lens flares enter and exit frame differently than 3D placed flares do.

Can you tell us more please?

In what way are they different and why?