Check out my Lens flare class with demo and sources

[Serg Nechaeff]

Maybe someone will find it useful... Contains a compiled exe (win32) and sources. Anyway, lens flares rule!

http://www.dev.your3dgames.com

[deps]

Looks nice!
But it doesnt look like the flare is centered. It looks to come from a point next to the star and comets.

[powerpop]

this rocks!!!!

what i am loving about irr the most so far is how open the community is - i think sharing code modules is where its at - in the end everyone benefits

so far seeing what people have done with cameras, flares, player characters ... its all helped me get my app going - and i see places where i can contribute back - xml parsing, skyboxes (and hopefully a killer skydome!)

[Serg Nechaeff]

Looks nice!
But it doesnt look like the flare is centered. It looks to come from a point next to the star and comets.

yeah... have to check the code...

[Robomaniac]

hm, found a small thing, when looking at multiple light sources, shouldn't there only be one flare? (ex. here) just wondering

--The Robomaniac

[Serg Nechaeff]

I dont know, I guess not

[keless]

no, multiple light sources each cause their own flares on a camera lense.

whats funny is using lense flares at all, since most games try and add the "suspension of disbelief" and a lense flare is a throw back to a mechanical seperation between one's self and the scene (the barrier being a camera lense). anyhow, it looks good, and thats all that matters.

[buhatkj]

tis true, but this is definitely a kickass tool for people doing scripted in-engine cutscenes or machinima with irrlicht...
-Ted

[qwe]

yeah... for cinematics and such I also noticed that the flare tends to flicker in some spots... that's not intentional, is it?

[Serg Nechaeff]

When I cast a ray from the camera to the node (so I know it is actually visible and nothing stands between me and that node) then sometimes it doesnt work, I dont know why

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core::position2d<s32> temp = m_scm->getScreenCoordinatesFrom3DPosition(m_node->getPosition()); 

if (m_scm->getSceneNodeFromScreenCoordinatesBB(temp) == m_node) 
 draw_lens_flare();