large scale fires

[cb LLC]

How would you create so many fires like forest fire? It is really impossible to simulate all this. Are there any tricks for this kind of stuff?

Thank you
This is from Pixar's Fire and Rescue Airplanes

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmm, in Maya you could instance a set of 3-4 simulations, but in Max we have yet to allow instancing support. Right now you could just copy the sims and redirect them to share the cache file sequences, and if you need to adjust render settings after that, I guess the quickest way would be to save them as a render preset and then load it for each sim.

[flipbook]

also as I found out on a project late last year ... the 2D simulation works really well! Could be good for very quick sims for the distant trees

[cb LLC]

Thank you! Nice idea

[cb LLC]

Thank you! Hopefully max will support instances soon. Also would be nice if one day Itoo forest could instance phoenix fd sims like trees for stuff like this