If memory serves me correctly, Chienworks has a veggie for this.

Yep. It's stashed here: http://www.vegasusers.com/testbench/veggies/

It's rather bright and flashy though. As TorS pointed out, you'd probably want to make a much more subdued version for an eye sparkle.

I asked for this last August, and since then about three other people have asked similar questions. I still haven't seen an effect that does quite what I wanted. However, the lens flare does give the correct "star" quality, if you can figure out how to place and control it (which I was never able to do). I think if you are good with masks, you could probably do it with 2-3 tracks -- one with a mask; one with your picture/video, and one with a duplicate of your picture/media with the lens effect. You would then need to mask out the portion of the lens effect (the other "flares") that you don't want to appear.

Again, I'm "dry-labbing" this, after having failed to it back in August (due to time constraints), but I'm pretty sure it would work, and give better results.

Thanks to everyone for the input on this.

Tors, thanks for your post. That is the one i saw before.

Chienworks, thanks for the veg file, I will be working with it to see if I can get what I was looking for with it. I'm sure it will work.

Spidy, a suggestion we made earlier in another thread is that you may not want to try to incorporate that .veg file into your project, but rather after getting the look you want, render it to a DV .avi file. You can then add this file on an overlay track in your project and set the compositing mode to additive. This will make it much easier to position the sparkle exactly where you want it with track motion, resize it, fade it in and out, etc.