Lens Flare

This operator applies a lens flare to your image or sequence. This is useful for adding the lens flare effect to pre-rendered passes. You can control the brightness and dimensions of the basic flare effect, it's "star" and its glow. You can also set up to three lights to act as sources for the flare(s).

Requires an Input (Any).

Produces an Output (Any).

Flare

Enable	Toggles the lens flare effect on and off.
Flare	Displays the Flare Preset dialog box from which you can select a flare type.
Intensity	Controls the brightness of the flare.
Scale	Controls the size of the flare.
Aspect Ratio	Specifies the ratio between the flare's width and height.
Composite Method	Specifies how the flare is added to the image or sequence: Add: the flare's lights contribute to the overall lighting. Screen: the flare's lights do not contribute to the overall lighting.

Star

Enable	Specifies whether the operator creates a star-flare effect.
Number of Rays	Controls the number of rays per star.
Rays Length	Defines the length of the star's ray.
Rays Length Jitter	Controls the seemingly random variations in the star ray's lengths.
Rays Thickness	Defines the thickness of the star's ray.
Rays Thickness Jitter	Controls the seemingly random variations in the star's rays' thicknesses.
Rotation	Specifies the rotation of the flare's star effect.
Auto Rotate	When on, the star effect will automatically rotate as the flare's lights are moved.
Brightness	Controls the brightness of the star effect.
Twinkle	This parameter controls the random flickering of the star over time.

Glow

Glow	Applies a glow or halo within the flare effect.
Size	Defines the size of the halo.
Brightness	Controls the overall brightness of the flare's glow.
Falloff	Defines the halo's attenuation from the center of the flare.

Lights

Light 1,2,3	Enables the light. You can enable up to three lights and configure the following parameters for each.
Color	Each light's color sliders set the light's color.
Position	Sets the position of the light in X and Y. values of 0 and 0 will place the flare in the image's lower-left corner. Both X and Y position values can range from -2048 to 2048.

Mask

Controls this operator's Mask Options.

Output

Controls this operator's Output Options.