I've been playing with the material room trying to set it a flame. (Maybe I can light a fire under the Firefly ;-) )

I think this came out pretty well. I've just got to figure out how to animate it now. I wish the fBM had an offset value I could animate. Anybody know if one of the other nodes can produce a similar effect and provide an offset value like the texture map's UV offset.

The texture is on a really old fire prop I made in sPatch a couple of years ago.

Where'd I put my matches...

You've seen these halloween flames before, How about

clothifying (is that a word?) the reflective criss crossed

flame meshes over the wind force with colored lights

underneath. Anyway recreating those Halloween torches and

cauldens.

Yeah, that's kind of what I was doing here. I clothified (Yup, its a word) the fire prop and put a fan under it. (Fanning the flames ;-P ) I just picked the best frame for the render.
Just too many Puns!

you can connect a math node directly to the UV setting to change that setting between frames I'm not sure exactly how it's done, but entropic did something similar a short while back to switch textures gradually in an animation.

Attached Link: http://www.semplanet.com/fireeffects.htm

Hi there. I had replied to a post like this last week. Forgive me if I'm talking to the same person again. I had already gotten Carrara Studio last year and played with it's fire settings. I have done a little demo here using it in the background with Poser 4 (haven't moved up to 5 yet) I figured for my purposes that I would make more of those and use them as animated materials when I got P5. I was trying to see if that would be interesting to anyone here. Here is the little hastily done video, with no lightwork, as I would do my finishing work in Lightwave for that anyway.

Oh, and I forgot to mention...why wouldn't you just want to video a fireplace and use the avi? Also, I'm playing with the colors and getting other effects going. If someone wants to try them out, like mapped to a sphere inside a transparent sphere or something and let me know if I might continue this route? I can get those effects easily within Lightwave, but I know there may be some users trying to do things with fire within Poser 5, and go a slightly different route, so I'd like to make some fire and smoke effects things available in the marketplace. If not, I'll just tromp back to my cave and cook my marshmallows alone. Just check the site to see if I'm onto anything useful. Heh, lemme know sumpin'k?