Rigging a Lens Flare in After Effects (No Plugin’s Required)
In this tutorial we’ll learn how to create, stylize, and rig a lens flare using native tools in After Effects. In the tutorial I reference a few expressions which can be found below:
Negative X
mlt = 2;
dist = (mlt+1)*(width/2);
FP = thisComp.layer("Flare Position").transform.xPosition*-1;
EQ = (dist+FP)/mlt
Negative Y
mlt = 2;
dist = (mlt+1)*(height/2);
FP = thisComp.layer("Flare Position").transform.yPosition*-1;
EQ = (dist+FP)/mlt
Positive X
mlt = 1.5;
(width/2)+(thisComp.layer("Flare Position").transform.xPosition/mlt)-(width/(mlt*2))
Positive Y
mlt = 1.5;
(height/2)+(thisComp.layer("Flare Position").transform.yPosition/mlt)-(height/(mlt*2))
Also if you would like to download the project file here is a link:
http://bit.ly/1DYN3LT
Good luck,
Caleb
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