The Streak glow effect creates directional light streaks that emanate from bright areas in your image, similar to anamorphic lens flares or light streaking effects.

Warning

This effect is very performance intensive at low step counts.

How it works

Streak glow isolates bright areas of the image based on a threshold, then creates directional light rays emanating from these bright points. The effect samples along multiple rays to create a star-like pattern of light streaks.

Unlike the standard Bloom effect which creates a uniform glow in all directions, Streak glow creates directional streaks that can be configured to create various ray patterns.

Use cases

  • creating star-like glints on bright objects
  • adding directional light streaks from light sources

Controllers

NameTypeDescriptionRange
RangeNumberControls how far the streaks extend0-1
StepsNumberControls the smoothness of the streaks0-0.1
ThresholdNumberBrightness level at which streaks begin0-1
BrightnessNumberControls the intensity of the streaks0-10
Number of RaysNumberControls how many rays are created1-16
Angle OffsetNumberRotates the pattern of rays0-360
Render Input on TopBooleanShow the original image on top of the streaks-