God Rays Effect...

[Rick Burnett]

I am thinking about picking up Trapcode Shine and possible Trapcode Lux to do God Rays coming out of some clouds hitting the ground. I've watched all the tutorials and am about to download the trial versions to test out what I want to do.

That said, I wanted to know if there is any other presets I should be looking at. The one thing about Lux is I didn't see a lot of control over the fog in the spotlights. Now, I am sure I could use some fractals to affect it if need be, just didn't know if there was something better out there.

Basically, I want to overlay the effects of both Shine and Lux which I think will give me more dynamic control over the effect. Also, with Shine, I can use Particular I think to generate some clouds with light shining through them and have that be the start of where the rays come from.

Thoughts?

 

[J Davis]

Why not just shoot it Rick? I'm finishing up on a music video where we had rays from heaven - rays on black then luma key.
HMI thru hole in cinefoil.

 

[Rick Burnett]

Hehe, well I cannot go into a lot of detail, but this is for a VFX scene where I need a lot of control over the effect. It has A TON of composited layers and trying to do this for real would not give me the freedom I need. Believe me, I have shot a lot of things I started in AE first because the real thing was easier.

The actual final effect will not look exactly like them, but they are a component of them.