Lens Effect
Tips & Tricks, Textures – by: base80
May 5th, 2006
A long time ago I did a funny discovery. It totally slipped my mind until MoGraph was announced.
Here is the result, read on to discover how it is done.
![paint-effect](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effect.gif)
[More:]
Well actually it is quite simple.
Place a plane just in front of the camera.
Add a transparent texture with some refraction (1.5) and with a bump-map. The bump-map will make the effect, so play around with noise or textures or even images.
![setup](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/setup.jpg)
You can also add an image to the transparency channel to get weird effects like this.
![painteffect](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/Picture-9.jpg)
![paint-effect-box](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effect-box.gif)
![vl](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effectvl.gif)
![sema](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effect-sema.gif)
![hama](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effect-hama.gif)
![electric](https://web.archive.org/web/20060618231406im_/http://www.base80.com/tips/painteffect/paint-effect-electric.gif)
and so on
Enjoy!