In nuce: Crate’s Godrays – a free plugin for Adobe After Effects that can be used to create volumetric lighting effects – has been published on the online asset library ProductionCrate . This is according to a report on cgchannel.com. In the video posted online alongside the plugin, Crate’s Godrays says: “It’s six times faster than CC Radial Blur, the standard approach to creating light rays in After Effects.” The plugin is available for After Effects CS6 and up and works with Windows and Mac operating systems.
In toto: According to the description of the plugin, its handling should be comparatively simple. A click in the viewport defines the starting point from which the light source should radiate. Parameters such as “beam length”, “diminishing beam power over a certain distance” or “chromatic aberration” are user-definable. There are also four preset quality modes to choose from, allowing you to decide whether a high-quality image of the light effect is more important than the rendering speed.
Click further: A guide has been published on productioncrate.com . It explains how to download Crate’s Godrays (see also the video below). Digital Production last reported on ProductionCrate on 28.07.2022 . At that time, it was the 3D models of the Modern Industrial Pack, which included assets for Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Houdini and 3ds Max.
Source: cgchannel.com
100% Free AE Plug-in! Crate’s Godrays
