primorge posted at 4:40 PM Thu, 2 June 2022 - #4439491

As a, perhaps, contentious observation I'll admit that this candle artifact dilemma is rather puzzling in my eyes. You've been working on this (non cowardly) candle flame thingy for how long now? 2 years? Of course not continuously... With a ton of feedback from others also. It just seems strange that this is happening only now, yes?

Not contentious at all. Yes, I started that topic a couple of years ago and there was a lot of activity for a single week. Then it went into hibernation and I forgot about it.

Just over two years later I was doing a render with a candle and I needed a flame - that reinvigorated the topic

Don't forget I'm mainly trying to create a candle flame shader - I wasn't concerned with how it was going to illuminate the scene until I got the shader right, which was 10 days ago when I released it as a freebie. I'm using a point light because that's easiest for me - I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of light emitters. Finally, this problem simply didn't show up in any of the test renders or animations I did. The first time I saw it was with this figure version of the candle.

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