Does anyone know how to create a realistic fire in Vue3? Are there any tutorials on the subject? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Hi, Well, Bloodsong has a fire material in the Vue Free Stuff. You can find it if you click on the link above. Download it, check it out, and study its' composition. Also, Vue 3 has some pre-made fire materials in the Special Effects library of the materials directory. I'm not aaware offhand of any tutorials for it, but if there are, you can check out the Tutorials link, located in the menu to your left, under "Features", and navigate to the Vue d'Eprit tutorials. I'm thinking there probably is something about fire, but I just can't remember right now. In any event, fire is something I believe you would have to set up with fuzzy, transparent and ambient materials, not to mention mixtures of colors with various settings of ambience, transparency, and "fuzziness". it doesn't seem very easy, though, and I haven't played around with it much. Hang in there though-- someone else will see this and probably have a much better answer than this!

I mean, in the menu at the right--- right/left--- what's the difference? ;)

Thanks! :oP~ "Right/left" no "up/down"? Hehehe!

heh-heh... Uhh, I also might mention that it seems as though the fire material wil also be entirely dependant on what kind of lighting it has on it... ya have to play with it somewhat... I'd recommend setting up the fire first, and building a scene around it. There might be better ways, of course, but that's all I can think of. Personally, I'd count more on post work for the final image....

I've got a campfire available on my site, and also several candles complete with flames. Visit Treasures d'Esprit then follow the link to my Vue d'Esprit Goodies section. I typically use the Fire material that comes with Vue, modify its colors a bit (since I'm usually building small fireplace fires or single candle flames rather than bonfires or burining buildings). You need to have at least one light in the scene for the fire material to work (the light doesn't have to be visible to the camera), and then you adjust the Ambient setting on the material higher or lower, according to your scene lighting. :) Varian

Thanks, Varian. I'll check it out.

I did a picture with fire in it you create 2 spheres with both Vue fire textures in them intersect the spheres and you have a decent loking fire. You will need to ply with the placement of the spheres. Some minor postwork might be needed to smooth out theedges of the spheres. here is an example of what I did. Marge

Nice work, Marge! :)

Thanks and that wasn't even the final image :) Marge

Thanks, Marge. Looks better than anything I've tried to come up with!