while making an outer space image I’m trying to create a lensflare effect which ive seen done here succesfully several times. I was wondering how you can achieve this effect in ZBrush, or do you always do lensflare as postwork.
David
my lens flares and sunburst are done in postwork with psp7 or pp9 most of the time.
I dont know if you mean a glare/gleam of light or an actual lens flare (multicolored-circles and geometric shapes).
I havent seen too many tradition lens flares around here but I have seen light gleams and this is how I make mine.
I have a custom alpha I use…
With simplebrush selected, I set the draw palette to RGB only with an RGB intensity of about 3 to 6 and I use both the dragdot stroke and drag rectangle stroke.
For a more realistic look, you can use the alpha as a stencil and paint a type of gradient gleam with colors of the spectrum.
here is the alpha in BMP format for download (256x256)…
Hope this helps.
<font color="#949494" size=“1”> December 02, 2002 Message edited by: Mahlikus The Black </font>
Hello zero!! 
This is my little tutorial for lensflare:
LensFlare - Tutorial by MrBraun
Hope that is helpful for u!!! 
Well…Mahlikus and Mr.Brown, I think what you offer is an highlight and not a lensflare(effect). Film the sun and you will see the lensflares.
The best way to get lensflare-effects is using ps or psp, as you say the postwork.
Dorian
Yesser thats what I said, not a true lensflare really…just a gleam of light.
PS is the way to go otherwise.
Hi Zero
Why lens flare ?
It’s an artificial effect
Be more natural
Pilou
I’ve achieved a fairly good lense flare in the past by drawing a big sphere on a layer with nothing else on it. The sphere has the texture/color that you want for the flare. The material’s specularity is turned up, and the graph is modified to create circles at varying distances. This creates the flare effect. Finaly, and most important, turn on the material’s transparency (and modifiy the graph if needed.)
Or use PS.
wow, thank you all for the help! I’m trying to make a lensflare effect instead of a gleaming effect because the picture I’m doing is of the sun. Generally, when you look at the sun, you don’t get gleam, you get lensflare, though, I’ll have many uses for using gleam in the future im sure.
thank you all again
David
You can also create a lensflare in say photoshop on a black background, desaturate it and save it for use as an alpha, then use the simple brush and and drag stroke and drag it out in white over the flattened image…