Turning on/off lens flares

Unity Engine
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I have a light, a camera and a button. The lens flare effect has been attached to light. What I want to achieve is when I press the button - lens flare turns on and off.

Is there any way to connect to light’s Lens Flare component? Or may be I can switch off Flare Level in my camera? Or should I use layers to hide/show a flare?

Thanks.

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I would really appreciate help on this.

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You can technically use whatever you want but if you want to disable all at once, its definitely easiest to just disable the lens flare component on the camera

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dreamora, can you, please, show a simple example of how I can access camera’s component?

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Anybody?

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var flareLayer : Behaviour;

function ToggleFlares(){
	flareLayer.enabled = !flareLayer.enabled;
}

drag the Flare Layer component onto the the variable created. I have no idea what Flare Layer is in terms of code, but it types itself as a generic Behaviour so i’ll treat it that way :slight_smile:

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Mitch,

thank you very much for the code.

What if not funny is that I sill have kind of bug. I have a layer with light. Light has a halo and lens flare effect. When I hide the whole layer - halo becomes invisible and lens flare in NOT :shock:

Is there any way to hide the freaking lens flare?

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what about turning off the light?^^ if you don´t need the light, turn it off and the flair will disappear… do you still need the light without a flair? you could change the flair with an empty flair, like a kind of placeholder… this is not the best solution, but it works, too. …last but not least, you don´t need to changed layers to turn off flairs;) …and who needs a light with a halo?^^ the “halo” could be a part of the flair, so turn off halos;)

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Oh, I think you understand me wrong. Halo and Lens Flare are not “inside” the light. I added them via Component > Rendering > Halo/Lens Flare panel. I really need those elements in my project.

I just don’t believe there is no way to hide Lens Flare. I’ve looked through manuals and forum posts with no success so far.

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Ok, I’ve found solution. My mistake, it was just to easy. I’ve applied Lest Flare to component and then just used *.active = false code to hide it.