Doubt it. Most third party renderers try to be so dang realistic all the time, and don't have the kind of fake (and nice) volumetric lighting we need. 😢
Thanks for the great tutorial! How can I render the northern lights without a black background? I did render with an alpha channel but it didn't look right for some reason.
Might have something to do with straight or premultiplied alpha channel? Usually when an alpha doesn't look right that's what's going on. (If you're importing into After Effects you might need to tell it it's a straight alpha under Interpolate Footage, because AE usually gets it wrong.)
I couldn't figure it out, at least not a nice & fast to render way. I usually render an Aurora pass separate in standard, and in the main pass (arnold for instance) have an object not seen by camera with the aurora matte as a green emissive material to get some GI & reflections going.
