Create a Volumetric Candle Using Blender 2.5 – Shaders

Create a Volumetric Candle Using Blender 2.5 – Shaders

on Dec 13th 2010 with 6 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Software: Blender 2.5
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Completion Time: 35mins
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Create a Volumetric Candle using Blender 2.5

The smoke simulation system within Blender 2.5 has recently received a huge amount of attention from both developers and users alike. In this brand-new series we will introduce almost all of the latest features in a single project – creating a candle with a volumetric flame. This second part will show two ways to set up the fire shader with one being a lot more useful! While doing that, the rest of the new features will be explored…

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Discussion 6 Comments

  1. Kasper says:
    December 14, 2010 at 3:56 pm

    Impressive. Thanks for sharing.
    I’ve never been able to create a good looking flame, like this.

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  2. Aest says:
    December 16, 2010 at 11:53 am

    I was going through this tutorial but when I’m doing first render from part 2 there is no fire. It looks like this:

    http://img80.imageshack.us/i/candleh.jpg/

    I set up the physics, materials, texture and smoke settings identically like in tutorial. Does anyone knows what can be wrong?

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  3. jackal says:
    December 25, 2010 at 10:33 pm

    @aest: It looks as you set up density on the material improperly, also have you used indirect lighting or AO, it seams it is incompatible with volumetric materials for now (I could be wrong, it’s just an issue I ran across while experimenting with volumetrics)

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  4. Online man says:
    July 9, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    That’s impressive!! Looks very good!

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  5. opasam says:
    August 5, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    A great tutorial, but my flame is higher than yours. Could anybody help me ? Thanx a lot !

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    • nickname says:
      December 7, 2011 at 12:17 pm

      In the domain settings in the resolution settings under the dissolve checkbox: the higher the time, the higher the flame. the right settings can be different because of the size of the emitter

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