4.0 Beta - Available Now

Putting this beta out early for those who already switched to Blender 4.4 — some features broke and needed fixing. Download from your library page. Full release is coming next month.

THE BLENDER ADDON THAT MAKES YOUR RENDERS SHINE

Real-time viewport & render effect for both Cycles & EEVEE

GLARE takes care of you 💕

With one click the effect is added to the end of your compositing chain and overrides any older versions you may have installed. You don't have to open the compositor. It even enables viewport compositing and defaults to GPU mode.

If you’re into a modular workflow, you can still add your own nodes before or after GLARE.

Effects

Interface

40+ settings to dial in the look of your glare, neatly packaged into an easy to understand UI.
Buttons for view modes (viewport, render & pass) and preview individual modules.

Color Controls

Change the hue, saturation & colorize.

Pass Output

Isolated GLARE output on the compositor node group. Connect to file output node to render a pass. More info in the documentation (for intermediate users)

Blazing Fast

Adds zero to none extra render-time and runs real-time in the viewport.

Made with GLARE

Art by @tek3on

What's new in 3.0

New Features:

• Addon - Reworked into full addon, Accessible from N-panel and Render Tab
• Streaks - Directional streaks
• Vignette - Darken the edges of the frame
• Previews - Isolate a module to easily preview the changes you’re making
• CT_BLOOM - Restores the legacy EEVEE bloom removed in Blender 4.2

Improvements:

• Glare - You can now control the number of streaks, the angle & add dispersion
• Glare / Bloom - Size control more accurate
• Rays - Direction control

• Dirt & Noise - Improved Textures
• Performance - Up to 10 times faster render & viewport performance
• & Many more small tweaks

Encounter any issues or have suggestions? Refer to the documentation or hit up the HELP channel in our Discord

Tag @chrometype if you make anything with GLARE