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What are your favorite 3DL fire props? (brazier, fireplace, FX, etc.)

srieschsriesch Posts: 4,243
in The Commons

What 3Delight fire props does everybody prefer?  Braziers, fireplaces, torches, special effects, etc.  I have a lot of very old content with basic fire props that are usually about three planes in an X pattern and often don't seem very convincing without a lot of help and adjustments to positioning, materials, and lighting in certain scenes.  Obviously some work is needed in building any scene and I don't expect anything to be out-of-the-box, but I wonder if people have favorites that they turn to that they find significantly better or simply easier to use than others, even if it's just a simple side prop from an architecture set or something.  Similarly, just knowing people's reasons why they pick one over another might assist in locating appropriate products, or even just making wiser choices when chosing amongs products I may already have.  I'm interested to get lots of other people's thoughts on this, since everybody might go about it a bit differently or make different choices.

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,084

    I always like Smays's Fire and Smoke for Daz Studio as it give actual modeleld propsfor fire and smoke.

  • JOdelJOdel Posts: 6,322
    edited March 2020

    I find I use the fireplace/fire from winnston1984's INRiver Cottage over on Rendo a lot. It's the usual transmapped fire, but pop a Linear point light in there are it works out rather well. 

    There are a few other fire/fireplaces that I've used, but that one is probably my first go-to. 

    The package has some other useful props and bits, but I had to spend a couple of days disassembling the actual cottage model and putting it back together in the geometry edition before I had something where I could turn off wall groups so the camera didn't get embedded in it.

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  • Fae3DFae3D Posts: 2,898

    I use Morphing Flames for both 3DL and Iray.  It includes materials for both, and I like all the morphs they come with.

  • NorthOf45NorthOf45 Posts: 5,758

    I'll second the Fire and Smoke from smay. These are a few non-billboard flames and effects that look good from any angle:

    Raw Energy Effects (3DL) Real geometry, not strictly fire.

    Morphing Flames (3DL & Iray) Real geometry, lots of morphs.

    Soldiers of Magic: Serpio (3DL) Real geometry, complex, but nice.

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