Animating : Simple Fire

[DeathBrain]

I created simple things "how to animated fire" for you...try it (Max 4.2 format) :)

[Jon_Pran]

Thanks, mighty kind of you.

One problem: when I merge the fire into another scene, it deletes the Combustion property (?). The gizmos come in correctly, but no effects.

The other thing, where is 'combustion' in Max 4 or 5? I know the older versions used combustion, but I thought the newer ones replaced it with 'fire effect'.


I think I figured it out, though. I was animating the phase from 0 to 300. That's much, much too high.
Is that correct?

Thanks again.

[DeathBrain]

Originally posted by Jon_Pran
One problem: when I merge the fire into another scene, it deletes the Combustion property (?). The gizmos come in correctly, but no effects.

If you merge then...yes.. it deletes the Combustion property on those new scene

The other thing, where is 'combustion' in Max 4 or 5? I know the older versions used combustion, but I thought the newer ones replaced it with 'fire effect'.

Yes, combustion was replaced it with 'fire effect' in Max 4 and above, but they're all still the same things with the same parameters :)

I think I figured it out, though. I was animating the phase from 0 to 300. That's much, much too high.
Is that correct?

It depends on your total scene frames, for 100 frames, i think 300 for motion and 100 for drift (for fire) or 1000 motions and 1000 drift (for jet looking fire)

Note : The biggest problem with combustion is, they affects the whole "world unit setup", same combustion with same parameters could be different in many scenes :annoyed:

Lets try my other fire sample for you (fast moving fire) :)
Download it here (http://www.geocities.com/zigaretos/for_jon_pran2.zip) :beer:

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