how to do lens flare in bv?

[liverol]

like the titie,how to script a lens flare???
appericate for answer!!

[Ron]

I could see two different ways:

1. If its on a vehicle windshield for example, put a transparent texture on the window with the flare on it. You can script the flare/texture uv to move around according to vehicle rotation in the world.

2. If its for the whole scene, just do a single plane that always stays in front of the player view. Move the uv around the same as above with scripting.

Finally, not sure how this would work, but you could make a light in the world that follows the player around or orbits the player depending upon how he turns. Then you could have the light only reflect on the player.

[Squat]

A simple textured plane set to billboard and 'additive' blend mode will work just fine for the flare. You will probably want to create several shapes and colors and code on some motion parameters for when looking up (assuming this is for the sun). If it's just for a simple light glow, there should be no problems just slapping it in.