MonaimeFlares Wizard is an add-on that facilitates the creation of realistic lens flares in Blender. It supports both Cycles and Eevee render engines and offers a comprehensive set of features for lens flare design, inspired by renowned plugins like Optical Flares for After Effects.
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Key Features:
- Real-time Design: Add and design lens flares in real-time within the 3D viewport.
- Fast Rendering: Requires no more than one sample for rendering.
- Custom Presets: Access 50 presets or create your own by combining 10 available elements.
- Camera Borders Detection: Dynamic fadeout animation as the target moves out of the camera view.
- Obstacles Detection: Real-time interactions between lens flares and scene objects.
- Blinking Effect: Add procedural flickering animation.
- Instancing: Generate flare instances on objects within collections, mesh vertices, curve points, and Geometry nodes outputs.
- Compositing Tools: Configure view layers and AOVs.
- Background Plane: Integrate lens flares with images or videos.
- Texture Variety: Choose from over 100 image textures.
