lens flare

Cleves · Post by **Cleves** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 11:58 am

hey all,

Ok i created a sun but how can i create the lens flare effect using irrlicht?
any ideas?

saigumi · Post by **saigumi** » Fri Oct 10, 2003 1:16 pm

Billboards.

Get the Ray from your sun to the camera and speckle it with flare billboards at random intervals including at a location almost on top of your camera's near value.

Serg Nechaeff · Post by **Serg Nechaeff** » Tue Dec 02, 2003 10:58 pm

and how can tell the sun is visible?

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:42 pm

Im not sure if this would work exactly but the collision detection demo shows how like you can like select an individual triange based on the direction the user is looking I would guess that maybe you (might) beable to use that? Im not sure exactly if it will work but it would be probably the best place to start id think.