I have playing with Carrara trying to make a single flame for a candle. I can get Carrara to make the single flame. I can see this if I look at it from angles such as Front, Left, and Right view but any other views such as Directors and Camera 1 set at any view point (NOT Left, Right...) does not show the flame correctly (only bottom of flame that is flat is shown). Is there a way to get the flame to show correctly or is this a bug or something in Carrara.

Here is the screen shot that shows the views I can see the flame and the other views I can't. This is during the rendering and when I use the patch render in the assembly room.

I do think this is a bug. I just had to make a quickie animation of a birthday cake. I made my own candle and chucked on a fire element. I only edit in one window but as I spun the cake around and did spot renders, the fire only showed up on the front view. Since this was an animation and I did not have anytime to play with it, I just made a stupid flame in the spline room and put on a glow :) If anyone finds anything about this please post up.

Weird bug indeed ! I don't think it's related to the drivers . From what i know, the renderer uses only the main processor . Graphic cards are useful only for real-time in the assemble room . litst

I've come across the "disappearing in some views flame" effect discussed above on C2.1. I take it, this is still a problem? This thread was posted nearly two years ago; I'd've hoped something as basic as this would have been corrected by now... Anyone know of any work arounds other than to just not use the flame primitive? Thanks, Marc