- Sun Jun 14, 2009 4:46 pm
#301789
I'm not sure what info you're looking for. The shape in the aperture map will control the shape of the dispersion effect. If it's a 6 sided pattern, you get 6 streaks from your light sources. Then it depends on how strong your light sources are in the scene. If the camera sees a strong emitter or the sun, then it's going to have a stronger dispersion effect than if the cameras sees a reflection of an emitter. So you can't expect to have exactly the same results with every scene/camera view. The effect will also look different depending on how small the white area of the aperture map is compared to the black area. There are plenty of maps available with the install to get you started.
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