Lens Flare VFX – Advanced Sprite Based Lens Flares – Unreal Engine

Lens Flare VFX – Advanced Sprite Based Lens Flares – Unreal Engine

LENS FLARE VFX is a sprite-based photorealistic lens flare solution for Unreal Engine 4 and 5, designed to recreate authentic optical artifacts and light scattering phenomena that occur in real camera lenses. Built with physically-inspired rendering principles, this system simulates the complex interplay of light reflections, refractions, and diffraction patterns that emerge when bright light sources interact with multi-element lens assemblies.
Perfect for cinematic productions, sci-fi environments, racing games, architectural visualization, or any project requiring believable camera optics – this asset brings film-grade lens flare authenticity to real-time rendering.

Core LENS FLARE VFX features:
High-quality HDR elements library — chromatic ghosts, starburst patterns, halo rings, spectral dispersions, anamorphic streaks, and hexagonal bokeh artifacts. More than 300+ textures.
Fully modular and game-ready solution with easy Material Instance editing
Distance Based depth fade and screen position for visual fidelity and optimization
Multi-tap Depth Occlusion
Edge flares
Glints and Halo
Hotspot
Lens Dirt
MultiGhosts
Dynamic streaks and gradients
Photorealistic Tints for emulating AR-coatings
Game-ready photoreal examples
Demo-scene

Technical details:
Performance:
The Asset has been designed for game-ready projects in main purpose. The GPU cost is different due Lens Flare complexity. Shader instructions starts from 140 to 560. Asset was tested even on low-end pc’s with 650 GPU cards in 120fps stable.
Asset contains:
1 master material
30 material instances
35 Aperture Shapes textures 512×512
25 composite flare textures 1024×1024
30 Photoreal Ghost Gradients textures 128×32
10 Glint textures 1024×1024
20 Lens Dirt Textures 2048×1024
25 Light Leak textures 256×256
20 Micro Streak textures 256×256
35 Multi Ghost textures 512×512
35 Centre Ghost textures
5 Noise textures 64×64
35 Single Ghost textures 256×256
20 Spectrum Textures 512×512
35 Streak textures 1024×1024
10 UV Distortion textures 256×256
Supported Unreal Engine Versions: 4.27 and 5.0 – 5.7