Thick Smoke Dissipation

[Ivaylo Katev]

not yet, you have to play with the transparency curve

[bazuka]

ok, thx, ill wait for dissipation

[Ivaylo Katev]

it's easy to work around it

[wxyz]

How does this work?

yes, definitively smoke dissipation is needed, and we will add it. currently you can workaround it using temperature based opacity+cooling.
this is how i made this simple test

[Rchapin]

Your best bet is to base smoke on temperature, that way you can adjust the dissipation by using "cooling".

[wxyz]

Thanks. I animated cooling and temp. Is the transperancy curve animatable?

[bazuka]

it's easy to work around it

some things u just cant fake

[Ivaylo Katev]

Thanks. I animated cooling and temp. Is the transperancy curve animatable?

i did this using cooling, no need to animate anything, the cooling "animates" the temperature for you. but now i thing the simplest way to dissipate smoke is with proper adjusted transparency curve. the natural transparency curve looks like this:

it approaches the x axis, but does not touch it.
to make dissipation effect, the curve must be more concave and can touch the x axis.


edit: this curve is more controlable