..you have an animated fire material in Vue Infinite Tutorials ;) additionally, you can import fire pics as billboards, tons of fire pics out there on Web/image bureaus etc :) wwww.artbeats.com has, if you have lots of cash (wish I did!) for animated effects, thats where Vue got the fire animation form. Sorry I don't knwo what the scene you are building is precisely or your intended goal with it so cna't offer more advice than that I'm afraid.

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