Fire and explosion experiments

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Here's a bunch of illumination tests on explosions and fire:

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[TSR_trix]

Looks quite good, although still some flickering occurs. These are not resimulated? Would be nice to see how it works with high resolution grid.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Yup, no resimulation, spf=1 and no timescale or gravity tricks.

Have been trying out a new illumination method that works without additional lights and produces result without noise and hopefully without flickering when the smoke is dense, but as always there is a compromise between speed and quality.

Hopefully the rough edges will fall soon

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

And here's another one:

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Because the grid-based self-illumination has progressed since these previous posts, here is a re-rendered version of an old nuke simulation:

[lander]

Thanks for the tutorial on carpet bombing. Not that it's my main area of use but it's aways great to follow the steps and reasoning to create a efficient simulation. Much better than "use this setting" since it does not say "why"

[TSR_trix]

I have made some tests with newest nightly build and have to say, the grid based self shadowing ROCKS! Fast, good looking internal lighting for the smoke, very nice!

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hehe, nice, hope it helps
Btw, I think it might be possible to give the grid-based lighting to the GPU Preview once the lighting map is calculated