Flares Wizard is a powerful add-on designed to help you create realistic lens flares quickly and effortlessly within Blender, supporting both Cycles and Eevee render engines. Drawing inspiration from the renowned Optical Flares plugin for After Effects, we’ve crafted the best solution for lens flares in Blender.

Features:

• Real-time:  Add and design your lens flares in real-time within the 3D viewport.
• Fast Rendering: It needs no more that one sample.
• Custom Presets: Access 50 presets in version 3.0, or create your own by combining the 10 available Elements.
• Camera Borders Detection: Dynamic fadeout animation as the target moves out of the camera view. Adjust element intensity based on proximity to camera borders.
• Obstacles Detection: Experience real-time interactions between lens flares and scene objects.
• Blinking Effect: Add procedural flickering animation.
• Instancing: Generate flare instances on objects within collections, mesh vertices, curve points, Geometry nodes outputs, and control different aspects through geometry attributes.
• Compositing Tools: Utilize operators to configure view layers and AOVs.
• Background Plane: Seamlessly integrate lens flares with images or videos using the background feature.
• Texture Variety: Choose from over 100 image textures.

Installation instructions

In the top menu Edit – Preferences – Add ons – Install, select the corresponding ZIP installation from the pop-up window