Fire Tutorial and 3D World 2003-11-28 - By Dave Angelini
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Some time ago, Ninja Dodo (whose name unfortunately escapes me at the
moment) created a neat fire tutorial entitled "Fire - Weta Style") which
used PPFX and an series of frames from a fire animation to create fire in a
method similar to what Weta used for the Balrok in "The Fellowship of the
Ring". The tutorial can be found here:
http://www.zeepost.nl/~ninjadodo/tutorials/firetut.html
What was always a problem in attempting this tutorial was in coming up with
the fire animation as a series of single frame images.
Well, 3D World has a 74 frame sequence of jpg images of a neat little puff
of fire and one of smoke on its cover CD this month. It is buried deep in a
zip file that goes with one of their tutorials on using 3DS Max v6's new
particle tools.
If you get that mag, dig deep it is in their.
Now off to power up PPFX.
Thanks,
Dave Angelini
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