texture controls emission of smoke

[stevesideas]

Say I have an object that has an animated texture on it that reveals the object over time. I would need to create a texture that only animated the reveal point not the full reveal itself. At the reveal point I would like some wispy smoke to be emitted using Phoenix. Is there any way to do this ? Would I need to use particle flow or could I just use Phoenix somehow ?

This would be the animated full reveal gradient for the object.



and this would be the point reveal where I would like the smoke to emit from.



Both these grads would have a synced animation from left to right.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

The second gradient just has to be put in the map slot of the Smoke channel of the PHXSource, and this should be all.

[stevesideas]

Well, that's a lot easier than I thought it would have been. Great. Thanks

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Good luck

[stevesideas]

Thanks. I've got another question if you have time.

How do I have a puff of smoke from the emitting area and not a continual stream of smoke travelling up ?

[Ivaylo Katev]

animate the discharge and the smoke to be zero after few frames