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V-Ray Lens Effects simulates real-world camera lens effects such as bloom and glare. The plug-in uses a fast multi-threaded technique to compute the result and provide immediate update in New V-Ray VFB. V-Ray Lens Effects are applied in the effectsResult channel together with other post effects executed over the RGB rendered image.

The Lens Effects layer is accessible from the Layers panel in the new VFB and can be activated when the lens effects are enabled. It can be blended with the rest of the layers in the redesigned VFB.

Additionally, V-Ray includes a standalone Filer Generator for composing custom lens filters.

Enable bloom/glare effect – Enables the V-Ray Lens Effects.

Size – Specifies the size of the filter as percentage of the image's diagonal. See the Size example below.

Intensity – Multiplier for the bloom/glare source bright pixels. Increasing the value can boost the effect by simulating up to 20 times brighter source. Values lower than 1 can be used to produce subtle bloom/glare from overbright sources. See the Intensity example below.

Bloom – Controls the blend between bloom and glare. A value of 1 forces bloom to be applied to full extent and without any glare. A value of 0 removes the bloom completely and applies only glare. Values in-between blend the two effects proportionally. See the Bloom/Glare example below.

Threshold – Sets a minimum value for the rendered pixels to be considered as lens effects source. The Bloom/Glare effect will be  is generated only regarding pixels with larger value than the specified threshold.

Rotation – Rotates the final result effect, regardless of this is a filter image or a procedurally created one. 

Saturation – When the value is set 0, the effects use the original hue of the bright pixels to create bloom and glare. Larger values intensify the hue set with the Cold/Warm option. See the Cold/Warm & Saturation examples below.

Hardware Accelerated – Enable to calculate lens effects on the GPU. When multiple devices are present, V-Ray will prioritize prioritizes the best one available.

Cold/Warm – When enabled, the Bloom/Glare effect will be is toned to cold hues. When disabled, the effects will receive warm hue. The hue shift requires Saturation values larger than 0. See the Cold/Warm & Saturation examples below.

Interactive – When enabled, the bloom/glare effect will be is automatically recalculated and applied after any V-Ray lens effects parameter change.

Update – Manually forces the recalculation of the bloom/glare effects.

Clicking the  button displays a short menu that resets all the parameters for a lens effect to their default values.

Blades – Enables the Blades effect.

Sides – Sets custom camera aperture blades number to be considered for the lens effects. This parameter directly controls the number of "rays" of the glare.

Blades rotation – Controls the rotation of the camera aperture and blades.

Streak blur – Determines the width of the angle at which glare rays spread. The larger the value, the wider the spread. If set to 0, rays are directional; if set to 1, glare rays spread out and completely blend together. Observe in the Streak blur example below how values in-between change the glare rays appearance.

Peripheral grating – Enables grating along the sides of the aperture shape. 

Density – Controls the density of the grating effect in percent, where 100 is fully black.

Length – Controls the length of the grate lines.

Zoom – Controls the size of the halo around the lights.

Slope – Controls the direction of the lines.

Strength – Controls the strength of the blades effects.

Occlusion – When enabled it controls the aperture shape by occluding part of it.

Symmetric – Enables symmetric occlusion of the shape. When disabled, the occlusion appears only on one side of the shape.

Percent – Controls how much of the shape is occluded.

Rotation – Determines the position of the occlusion over the shape by rotation.

Arc – Controls the arc of the occlusion. A value of 0 sets a straight line, while a value of 100 makes an arc.