My attempt at realistic sun flare

hello there, me again

so i was trying to make a cool lens flare texture, this is what i did:



any ideas onto how to make it look better or is it already good enough?

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I think it looks amazing. Congrats!
The only thing that I don’t know is that sort of shadow light. Might be that “shadow light” actually would look like that irl, it just looked unfamiliar to me.

can you explain what you exactly mean? cuz i dont really get what you meant there
i was trying it to look like the image below
1200px-Lens_Flare
i also might just add the SunRays effect as seen in the image so like theres rays that add more realism yk

I think this looks amazing for studio but there’s one thing:


The sun looks kinda weird here.

Updated version, still unsure if it looks good



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That looks way better!

In the new image you sent, you can see this light shadow isn’t present. Look at the image I sent you in my last reply, I circled the shadow with red.
Might be that the shadow is actually something from the sky like atmosphere or something, though.
Also the SunRaysEffect might be a good idea, see how it looks with and without it.

i think what you showed was just a dark pink flare
if you dont know why it was pink, look into this image which has that too


i didn’t do the best job at it but yeah its not that bad either

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How did you do this? I want to make this for my game.

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Id like to know too, how was this done?