fire/effects question

[Bonedaddy]

Seems like a fire texture mapped onto a sprite, or some sort of (possibly volumetric?) shader slapped onto a sphere. Shouldn't be too awful difficult. If you have any pictures of fire along what you're trying to achieve, monkey with sprites. Failing that, monkey with shaders. :)

[daraeill]

ahh great thank you....ill see what i can do with those ideas :)

[daraeill]

im having a problem getting anything to show up in render at all when trying to apply volumetric shaders to a simple nurbs or poly sphere...im kinda clueless on that one...guess ill search around and see if i can figure anything out about that

[bjohnston]

Usually, the volumetric shaders are to be used with particles or lights. Try one of the 3d textures on your shader instead (crater,fractal,etc...) with glow.

[T-bat]

I wasn't in Maya world for that long, but if i remember correctly, volumetric shaders are to be used with something i think is called implicit primitives??? Have you tried increasing transparency? I can be totaly off....

[Bonedaddy]

Sorry, I use all matter of weird renderers and techniques, so when I said volumetric, I meant something that is volumetric in effect. A raymarcher shader or something like that. Lord knows what Maya is doing with its default volumetric shaders, and what they're supposed to be used for.

[daraeill]

that helps thank you :) im in the process of tweaking it the way i'd like it :)

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