Fran, Don't mind you playing with "my" idea, just happy to bring inspiration of any kind :) Distant fires are cones too - until I get it right. No people - I don't have Poser and trashed Studio as it didn't work after several downloads and reinstalls... A temple, hmm, already thought about that! But progressing is slow... tried out the metaball trick. Last night I was spoon-fed by Xenic101 for hours and my fire still didn't look like his. Today I tried the technique AS described earlier in the thread, but I can see the edges of the spheres and that's not nice at all. Tried to make a fire from a Brycetech tut, and it won't render :( So at the moment I'm kinda lost... Will post whenever I make any progress at all (if I do)

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