How can we Keep glossy reflection of the sun, by hiding the sun disc (car model)

[Ricky Johnson]

Would the Dust & Scratches effect in AE work at all to solve this in your scene? If you see the attached it works pretty well to despeckle in this test and doesn't seem to alter the rest of the image if you can find a good threshold value (although my bright pixels in this test may be higher in contrast than those you're trying to eliminate). I don't know how it would perform in an animation unfortunately.

It's a shame that ArionFX plugin isn't available for After Effects. Looks great.

[Ludvik Koutny]

Rawalanche, if you open my animation, you see how much the  bright pixels change position. With glow effect I will no solve that problem =(

Yes, that's due to the low AA sampling, that's why i said it needs to be done in combination with lowering of GI/AA balance, so AA does not skip those pixels on some of the frames :)

[cecofuli]

Hi Ricky Johnson, thanks for the suggestion. I'll try and I'll tell you the result =)
But, as we know, this isn't the correct way so solve this problem.
It's only a "palliative" =)

[maru]

Here is a bit dirty method I thought of. Basically, you disable sun's visibility in reflections, duplicate CoronaSky map, put it into Color Correction map, put it into reflection override slot and tweak tweak tweak until you're happy. It's a dirty method and would require more tweaking but I think it has potential... This won't change shadows or lighting, only materials' appearance.

[cecofuli]

^___^ eheh "funny" idea. But it's work well!

[cecofuli]

Ok, but I'm not very satisfied.
As you can see, I lose a nice specularity in the carpaint shader.



The only solution (without post to remove bright flickering caused by sun disk as Ricky Johnson said) is like in VRaySun (affect specular)

[maru]

hmmm... maybe this would require some more tweaking but maybe it's impossible to make it look as good as without faking...

[cecofuli]

Yes, because the Sun disk is very small, compared to the bright area of CoronaSky. I tried to tweak it, but it not possible in my opinion.