Geometry Fire Test

[dellis]

Hey all,

I know its an old technique but i wanted to see if i could get something decent out of it. Going to tweak it some more tomorrow but i think the motion is getting there.

(EDITED LINK)

http://www.dwayneellis.com/misc/other/GeometryFire.rar

And a short movie of the effect.

http://www.dwayneellis.com/misc/other/GeometryFire.mov

Any suggestions would be great....not worried about the shader yet...just the motion.

[dellis]

This test is just for fun and practice...not for any project specifically.

[dlparisi]

Looks pretty nice to me. The coloring will be difficult but motion wise it looks really nice. Care to share how you did it?

[aphex79]

download the max file?

[dellis]

I think it needs some more sway...like side to side. Going to try a flex mod at the top to see if it helps any.

[Dynedain]

How does this compare to a particle solution?

[dlparisi]

download the max file?

Yeah, helps if I pay attention.

[dlparisi]

download the max file?

Yeah, helps if I pay attention.

[DaForce]

pay attention and post twice..
Maybe you need to pay MORE attention hehe jokes aside...

Looks pretty cool Dwayne, good luck coloring it tho. Maybe something like a radial gradient with the middle part stretched upward using uvw unwrap or something might work. So its blue in the middle a the bottom and orange around the outsides the whole time?

Might want to rar the max file up to save your bandwidth. Sure its not a big max file, but it would be like 1/10th the size..every little helps

[dellis]

Will do with the zipping. I'm not too sure what i'm going to do as far as the shader goes but i'm not even going to try until i get the motion perfectly beleivable. We'll see though.

[dellis]

The dynamics in the particle solutions are alot easier...wait, maybe not easier but you get them without having to create them. So i would say the particle solutions look more natural...or at least as you would expect fire to move. I just wanted to make a, mostly, procedural solution that was fairly beleivable and not a major hit on render time.