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Electro-ElvisElectro-Elvis Posts: 863
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I needed a campfire. I used the fire materials of Clay Hagebusch. I love the material, but not the shape of my fire. My wife meant, "Looks like a stone". And she was right, I used a Bryce stone for the shape ;-) Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

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Comments

  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,071

    I use the Volume fire from Bryce using a Volume Sphere or Cylinder. Have you tried one of them with the material?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    I always use several rocks or stones, squsihed on the x an z axis  and pulled up on the Y

  • HoroHoro Posts: 10,296

    I use an elongated sphere and often Caly's fire. But David's Volumetric Fire (Contributing Artists) is also good. There are more from David (Pro Materials: Fpac1, Pal_davidbrinnen, Sfx) well worth experimenting with.

     

  • Electro-ElvisElectro-Elvis Posts: 863

    Thanks a lot all of you for your quick answer. 

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241

    When you find a suitable material, also adjust it (if needed) so that you don't have an obvious cut-off line at the top/edges.  The flame should fade out on top rather than having a hard edge.  Possibly it would be helpful to do a few google image searches of fires for reference photos for comparison. 

     

    If it's hard to get a single material that looks exactly like you want and it's great in some places but has issues in tiny spots, depending on your scene you may be able to cheat and stack a few additional different sized/shaped objects in a line between the original fire and the camera to fix any trouble spots.  Of course that won't work if you need to animate or view it from different angles and shadows can be a problem, but occasionally it's a quick pain-free last second fix similar to postwork but with the advantage of being able to re-render too.

  • Electro-ElvisElectro-Elvis Posts: 863

    Thank you Sriesch for your suggestions. Here my fire.

     

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  • FishtalesFishtales Posts: 6,071

    Electro-Elvis

    That's very good. I like the sparks smiley

  • HoroHoro Posts: 10,296

    Electro-Elvis - very much improved.

  • JamahoneyJamahoney Posts: 1,791

    Yeah, sparks make it...nice one Elvis

    Jay

  • srieschsriesch Posts: 4,241

    Looks good!

  • Electro-ElvisElectro-Elvis Posts: 863

    Thanks a lot. BTW I used a combination of Chohole's suggestion and the Pro material as Horo mentioned.

  • HansmarHansmar Posts: 2,802

    Yep, looks very good!

  • mermaid010mermaid010 Posts: 5,189

    A very nice scene Electro-Elvis

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