particles : smoke

[Dave Black]

Create a standard material.

Make the material face mapped.

Add a gradient map to both the diffuse and opacity.

Make the gradient radial

By this time, you should have the basic particle material.

Create a particle system.

Make the particle type "facing" or "constant".

Apply the material you made to the particle system.

If you'd like to have a look at this basic setup, you can download an R5 file with some clouds made using this technique here:

http://www.3dzealot.com/DownLoads/3DZ_Clouds_Example.zip

http://www.3dzealot.com/DownLoads/clouds1.jpg

Hope that's of some help. Play with the setting as much as possible, and toy around with different techniques. This is but one way to go about doing it.

Best of luck!

-3DZ

:D

[NikLG]

It depends on what type of smoke you are after too.
Particles aren't that convincing for thin, whispy smoke ( like cigarette smoke ) or really thick stuff ( like oil fire smoke )
Better off using models for those types of effects.....

[Dave Black]

Also, comercial plugins are available for creating truely realistic smoke/volumetric pyroclastic effects:

UltraShock:

http://www.digimation.com/software/asp/product.asp?product_id=193&category_id=1

Afterburn:

http://www.digimation.com/software/asp/product.asp?product_id=176

Pyrocluster:

http://www.cebas.com/products/products.asp?UD=10-7888-33-788&PID=34

-3DZ

:D

[Psycholink]

I think make smoke to LinkCar84 you can see thread here :
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57218&highlight=LinkCar84

Thank you 3DZealot for good help.
:beer:

[Psycholink]

Hard to make realistic smoke without plugins ?

PyroCluster plugin look good..

[gaggle]

:curious:
Here's a way to make smoke without a plugin:
Create a standard material.

Make the material face mapped.

Add a gradient map to both the diffuse and opacity.

Make the gradient radial

By this time, you should have the basic particle material.

Create a particle system.

Make the particle type "facing" or "constant".

Apply the material you made to the particle system.

..if you know you what I mean...

[jarch]

Max 5 has an excellent smoke tutorial built in...

j

[Psycholink]

Originally posted by gaggle
:curious:
Here's a way to make smoke without a plugin:


..if you know you what I mean...

Yes I know :)

but realistic smoke? I have make a animationen with smoke look good..

Click here to download animationen ( DivX 2.4 mb ) (http://www.home.no/psycholink/linkcar84_version5_smoke_divx.avi)

[Johnny_Scott]

This type of smoke (face mapped particle method described above) was used in Contact to make the nebulae, in Ice Age to make clouds of snow, and in Star Wars episode one to make clouds of mist and spray over a waterfall; it can look completely realistic.:shame:

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