Been playing around with a (probably overdone) lens flare, and I though I'd post a WIP shot. I've run into both the 6 textures and 10 flares limits, which is probably a clue that I need to make the effect a bit more subtle
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I'm also just learning Gimp, so this is good practice for extremely simple effects. Most of this is a result of randomly fooling with the gradient tool, and working with a result I like.
For reference, this is the same mission with a Fenris covering up the star and hiding the flare:
Loving the bumped asteroids limit btw. 512 is still not that much to work with, considering some of the effects I'd like to create (such as a dense field of extremely small asteroids that just bounce off of ships), but it's a start.