Anyone know of any tutorials or methods for creating smoke? I want something that looks like thin coiling wisps of cigarette smoke. I'm going to try a few different things, but thought I'd ask anyway.

Also if anyone has a procedual for a good looking baize that would be cool too. Can you see where I'm going with this? ;-)

1. Actual photo on a 2D plane. :-) 2) One of the white cloud materials, elongated along the Y axis, greatly. 3) Stephen Ray had a pic with a beer mug and a burning cigarette, and I think he explained how he created the smoke.

I'll take option number 3 please Bob.

Kinda but not quite. It might work, since it'll be in the background and probably major DOF on it.

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Have you tried painting it and sticking that on a 2d pic?

Attached Link: MasterKi grabs a big hooter.

I would think you might have good results by changing the color of clay's volumentric fire to grays, then adjust the settings until you get something decent. I've also used the native bryce mat "psygem" (i think that's the name) in the density channel as a volumentric. The trick is setting it to 1d in the deep texture lab, and lowering the quality in the mat lab. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.

If you use Basic triangle in the DTE change it to a volumetric. Then in the DTE change all 3 components to alphas change color mode in 1 to multiply and color mode in 3 to blend and randomize you can get some very interesting smoke effect. I hope that made since. :-) Bah Just experiment with Basic Triangle you'll figure it out :-)

Attached Link: Smoke Tut

Are you gonna have dogs playing poker, or cats?

I don't do poser, so neither. ;-)

Attached Link: SMOKE TUT

Ah, it's the new protocol Happy-Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. Obviously doesn't work on all browsers yet.