[AlexP]

Ok I'll take fry again
They have IHMO nice thing that we don't: glare effects (besides diffraction and scattering). Now only way is to fake them using eg. frishluft plugin. But why don't simulate it?
Best regs.

[ababak]

Hi Alex,
have you tried simulens?

[AlexP]

Yep, but you can't get glare effect with diffraction, can you?

[eric nixon]

Why not show a picture, not sure what are these glare effects you speak of?

Diffraction is glare, so not sure what you mean there.

[bograt]

Same(ish) glare effects just labelled and possibly calculated differently by the looks of it, Fry often display square aperture maps on glare examples which are not supplied as standard with Maxwell: http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/sho ... eta-review
Maxwell simulens is good but I have yet to achieve the effect of fattening of 255 whites in photos, not so much a scattering but more of a finite bleeding.
Just this morning I was thinking of glare and diffraction in Maxwell, I was lying in bed squinting at the window and considered trying to recreate the colourful broken up rainbow glare effects you see through with morning eyes and bright sun..

[eric nixon]

Bograt, I cant see the point of that link to the 'competition'. Are you aware the fry core hasnt been developed since they moved over to arion, last thing I read was a fry user saying thanks for the dead end!.... back in 2010

The effect of diffraction through an obstacle like eyelashes is quite doable, although the hazy mind state is personal

[Fernando Tella]

Hijacking: Are all randomcontrol websites down?

[numerobis]

I think it is easier in fry to achieve the desired result (i never tried it but saw some tutorials). I have given up on simulens because i never got control over it... the results were always blurry and no contrastly shapes and the procedure was more a trial and error.
It would be nice to get a better description or tutorial of this function if it is capable to produce realistic results.

[Fernando Tella]

Yep, if you want to get some strong glare effect the image gets washed, but it's ok for subtle effects.

[eric nixon]

Maybe diffraction has been changed recently, I'm not aware of any changes but havent used it for a while either.

Ofcourse assymetric bokeh just came in, so its posible somethings changed / broken ??

[Bubbaloo]

I think Simulens needs improving. It's impossible to get nice bold effects without blurring/washing out the whole image. It would be cool to be able to get localized effects.

[polynurb]

I think Simulens needs improving. It's impossible to get nice bold effects without blurring/washing out the whole image. It would be cool to be able to get localized effects.

..yep.. and something like GPU processing (like motiva realcamera), to see the effect immediately/quicker.

i find simulens pretty unusable for resolutions beyond 2MP. it takes way too long to calculate.

[bograt]

Looks like simulens is taking a bad hit.. but I agree with most of the comments. Does anyone know if it uses any other info to calculate the glare other than what can be stored in a 32bit exr?
I seem to remember being able to apply glare effects to 32bit images in fry...

[bograt]

Crap! Don't think you can open exrs in fry... well there's one advantage to simulens...

[bograt]

Unless I apply a maxwell render .exr and apply to an emitter in fry and render that and then use the lens effects... what a shit idea that is...