Blender Smoke Tutorial (Part 1)

Basic setup of the scene. Uses billboard method.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• blender
• smoke
• tutorial
• nyrix
• fire
• omar

[haris09823091724]

i have 1 question, in your ipo curvve, you rendered around frame 50, but my particles grow larger everytime, so around 200 they are hugeee. how do i make them the same size every frame?

[NyrixCorp]

If you want them the same size without changing, just don't animate the size. Just skip the ipo part.

[vkovalcik]

Is anyone able to animate particle size in Blender 2.5? I am only able to animate it in absolute time, but not in a time relative to each particle's age.

I cannot find a way to insert the "Size" channel into the F-Curves editor, DopeSheet or anywhere else.

[NyrixCorp]

The way you animate in 2.5: go to your particles tab and go down to the size input. Right click on it and click insert keyframe. If you go to your graph now, there should be a tree with a dropdown for size.

[fcampbell93]

how do you make the background behind each billboard transparent? Ive been trying for ages but every billboard i have has the circle in the middle, but has a black outline, so you dont see the billboards behind!

[NyrixCorp]

Check to make sure the mask's alpha is set to 1.

[robbiX109]

is this on 2.5?

[McLardopolis]

could someone please help me with this, when i try to render with the smoke on volumetric texturing, blender crashes, how do i fix it?

[rvngizswt]

Where is the bake panel? Cannot find it!

[fcampbell93]

ahh! thank you so much! it finally worked :)