[ANSWERED] Flickering candle lighting effect

[peuclid]

I'm wondering if anyone has made a gl shader or worked out a simple way to make an image appear like it is in flickering flame light?

I did some playing with colorizer, video fader and wave generator to make it look like yellow/orange hues were getting brighter and dimmer, but I couldn't get it to look like a decent flicker with the sudden random changes in brightness. It changed too consistently. I'm sure I could add more randomness to it, but thought I'd see if someone has already done this.

It seems like it could be done in a single GL shader but I couldn't seem to find a good match out there and I haven't spent enough time learning about them to write it myself yet. If I have some time, I might try, but thought I'd see if something like that already exists, or if there's a simple Izzy way to do it

I don't need the actual flame in the video, just the lighting effect.

Thanks,

Bernie

[DusX]

@peuclid

I haven't done this myself but I suspect the 3D particle actor could output a series of particle shapes and modify their location, color and size in such a way to make for a nice flame... then rendering this out to a virtual stage and applying Motion Blur (or other effects) might add to the realism.

[Woland]

@dusx said:

I suspect the 3D particle actor could output a series of particle shapes and modify their location, color and size in such a way to make for a nice flame

 But peuclid wants just the lighting effect, not an actual flame.

[DusX]

@woland said:

just the lighting effect, not an actual flame

perhaps scaling this up and adding perspective with Izzymap would yield a good affect.
I often use video overlays for lighting effects,  I have many from Rampant, but don't know of any that would simulate candle light.

[CitizenJoe]

I was going to say, I would use a video overlay as well. Play with the blend modes.

Cheers,

Hugh

[peuclid]

@CitizenJoe @DusX @Woland 

These are some great ideas. I really like that suggestion from @CitizenJoe of making a video overlay. I can just make a video of a white wall being lit up by a flickering flame and overlay that on the video. That seems like the simplest (if I can make a decent film) and probably uses the least cpu/gpu.of making a video overlay. I can just make a video of a white wall being lit up by a flickering flame and overlay that on the video. That seems like the simplest (if I can make a decent film) and probably uses the least cpu/gpu.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try.