Very good. It's much better than the usual candleflames in Bryce. Now, if you could get a bit of transparency here and there in the flame, as well as get the lower left and right edges to go a tiny bit lower, you'd have a real candle flame. I repeat, a real candle flame.

I think it looks great. How'd you do that?

Ok so I know it's not what you wanted but I have to say that I think the candle should be white and translucent. The Bryster (Chris)

8/10 - it's missing the little blue bit at the bottom So will Santa bring me a Wacom?

Flame looks great. Anyway to make the wax slightly transluscent?

Very realistic looking flame....I'd like Santa to bring me what AS posted too..:)

There are two ways. One is the one i used a above, which is to use a very dense and very lightly fuzzy volume mat (100% density, 20 fuzzy factor, 40 quality.) It rendered rather fast, only 8 minutes with the flame, which by far took most of the render time. Then i stuck a radial inside the candle and have it an intesity of 140...no other changes to the light. The other way to do it i am still trying to get good results from, but it looks promising. I am tryng to use a lightly transparent material with blurry transmissions enabled. The problem is that the render time is much higher and i am having trouble getting the specular halo vs. amt of blurring to have a good balance with eachother. I'll keep working on it.

That wax texture/bump looks pretty darned real.

I agree with tuttle the flame needs that little blue area towards the base...but it's a great realistic flame so far, how did you do that? Ho Ho Ho, I have a Wacom 17x13 Intous2 tablet and wouldn't give it up for anything, best investment I ever made, and it wasn't that expensive (Dell4me)...=)

AgentSmith, very cool candle. Only thing it might need wouod be some specularity, cause right now it looks a ittle too much like paper. BTW how'd ya do it? ;)

Let's get really picky...LOL AS: When a candle has been alight for a while like yours, there is always a little pool of liquid wax beneath the flame. I can't see this on your red candle......... The Bryster (Chris)

Unlike MINE!, where as you can;t see it, the wax puddle may very well exist! LOLOL...JK

lol...dang, I just threw it together guys, lol. Yeah, it needs more specular hits and pools of red wax, lol. This was just an experiment really. I made that comment up there about airflamesred putting transluscency in the wax. After I posted I realized that might actually be difficult and tried to fake it, from what I saw in my girlfriends real candle. It's just a gradient map controlling the transparency of the candle (cylinder). And, then there's a radial light in the middle, that's all. It works okay, but the increased transparency near the top, makes it tricky to work with. AgentSmith

AS: Excuses, excuses, excuses!!! LOL The Bryster (Chris)

and there was me thinking mine was quite good.Kylara has the best texture and AS the best looking shape.

BTW, if you want to make the wick a little more realistic, check "fuzzy" in the Texture Editor. Not sure why this works, but until I did it the wick looked like a solid cylinder with no integration with the flame.

Kylara, can you please put together a tutor an explanation of how you did those flames! BTW, I like the understated/implied eros of the image.

Thanks incarnadine... Call me sick but this is just something I designed for someone to wear in real life (at the right moment that is :) ok.. will put a tut of those flames later even though you will be dissapointed at how easy I made it for myself

Kylara: great flames! But a little fur on those manacles would be nice, you know, cold steel, chafing...

Why would I call you sick, I understand this all too well. The erotic takes many forms and comes in many flavours. And what your image portends... elegant in it's simple statement for those who speak in such tongues!

Ohhh wait a moment... The shackles are ot mine. Only the collar. But... we're off topic here. This was about the flames :)

True. Thank you in advance for the info on the flames. Nothging wrong with easy (grin)

hmmmm... how DO I post anything else but a picture here? I don't have my own website so can't put it there. OH well.. just msg me when you wanna have it and I'll email it to ya