Fire simulation

[imashination]

I would suggest the AE forum, but thats just my wild and wacky ideas.

[iTHiNK]

before this thread get closed - I think you should look at particular in AE.

You can map sprites with multiple fire sequences and use that to have them fly wherever you like.

-Chris

[Troyan]

I would suggest the AE forum, but thats just my wild and wacky ideas.

...yeah, none of us use AE with our work. Silly me.

[Troyan]

before this thread get closed - I think you should look at particular in AE.

You can map sprites with multiple fire sequences and use that to have them fly wherever you like.

-Chris

Thanks, I'll give that a go!

[JoelOtron]

Geez--this thread got a bum wrap. Theres plenty of c4d options for this kind of thing.

I do my fire as geometry with animated displacement and falloff/fresnel shaders. Usually works great.

Otherwise--get thee to trapcode/redgiant and grab a copy of Particular (or FORM) for AE as stated earlier. You will use the crap out of it.

[Navstar]

I've never been really happy with AE generated flame. It all looks so plug-inny. That being said, Dean Velez has some of the best 2D fire I've seen. He's using novel approaches like Mr Blobby and Vector Blur. http://motiongraphicslab.com/

The best fire I've seen is using Maya's Fluid Effects... sure would be cool if C4D has fluids!

[JoelOtron]

If you need a practical flame--like a match, candle or stove, (or even more dynamic out of control fire) displace deformers and the right shaders can help.

Bunsen burner (http://www.betatronstudios.com/extras/bunsen.mov)


Chris Smith has his CStools which includes a setup called "flow" (I think inspired by the TC FORM plugin) in there as well.

Other than that --of course there is DPIT and pyrocluster for 3d fire.

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