Hi All,
I’m pleased to share my Firefly shader, built for a job i’m doing now but to useful to not share. Hope you like.
MM Fireflies — a procedural firefly generator for Flame’s Matchbox, built entirely from scratch (no footage or particle caches). Composites straight over black for Screen/Add, so it drops into any comp instantly.
- A full swarm of fireflies with organic drift and an authentic asymmetric flash (fast rise, slow fade, intermittent bursts — not a metronome blink)
- Depth travel: fireflies swoop in close and huge, then recede into the distance and loop, with a controllable, animatable vanishing point (Target X/Y) so you can fake the trajectory implied by a camera move
- An optional Hero firefly — a single, always-lit firefly with its own independent organic wander, occasionally sweeping close to camera or drifting off-frame, so there’s always a focal point in the shot
- Fully procedural and resolution-independent — no source plates, no baked animation, everything driven by parameters and time
Made by Marcus M.
MM_Fireflys.zip (42.9 KB)