Working with rings and hoops

We're just going to start off from scratch here, again…on the Flare Layer in the Optical Flares options.…going to go ahead and Clear All and start from scratch.…Here in this tutorial, we're going to look at Hoops and Rings.…And we're going to go ahead and start with the Ring object.…because the Ring and Hoop are actually very similar.…But the Hoop has a little bit more power.…So we're going to start with the Ring, and we can…see here, and it's very faint, and that's actually great.…From my experience, when I see real flares, the Ring here is usually kind of…like a, a ring that just like that, right around the, the main area of the glow.…

And it usually is really faded like this, probably even more than that.…That's like very faint.…Oh, that's the glow. Let me select the Ring here.…Take down the brightness. Usually very, very faint like that.…Very believable.…But for our purposes here, I'm going to go…ahead and delete the globe by clicking the little…red x here.…Select the Ring, and I'm actually going to increase the brightness…