method for sparkly highlghts

Anyone know how best to achieve nice sparkly highlights in an animation, for example on halogen spot lights etc. Is there a specialist plugin that is compatible with vray?

You can do this with Lens Effects and/or Blur (depending on the effect you’re after) in the Environment Rollout in MAX itself.

and does that work with Vray ?

Should be able to do this with Lens Effects by using the Unclamped Colors option. To get it working with VRay you need to turn on the Unclamped color G-Buffer channel.

--Jon