Thanks for posting that. It got me thinking...

One thing I've noticed is that I think we're all (except bagginsball) using a ColorRamp with blue at the bottom and yellow/orange/white for the other three.

But the last screenshot I posted of a real flame (engineerguy's green candle), and also the flame of the red candle rightmost of the four real flames posted a bit earlier don't seem to show any blending of the blue colour - at any point the flame is either orange/yellow/white or it's blue.

So what should the fourth colour of the (and I'll use my version of the ColorRamp here) white-yellow-orange-??? be ? Since the area with the fourth colour is mostly transparent you could say that it doesn't matter, but it clearly does - using blue just doesn't look right to me.

How about black ? And while we're at it the orange and yellow look too saturated to me so change those too (orange = 255, 180, 120, yellow = 255, 235, 150 or something like that). Also delete all the lights in the scene.

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