@KA: Fires Realtime with sliders?

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• KindredArts Posts: 1,354

  September 1

  pixelquack said:

  One thing that's hard to do is a fire in a series of images, be it candles, wood fires, trash in an oil drum, you name it - when you have multiple images it's static or you rotate, overlay duplicates, scaled etc etc. Doable but time consuming and only so credible. You end up post processing and feel like a fake. 

   I'm going to assume the "'@KA" is me, otherwise this will sound like shameless self-advertising. I had a product come out today called "VDB realtime" which let's you scroll through a series of VDBs. So the fire actually flickers and moves as fire should, instead of having to move through a series of stills. You can use the VDBs i supplied with it, or point it to a series of VDBs in a folder you already have.
• garrett_3d Posts: 986

  September 2

  I purchased your Realtime yesterday. Looking forward to playing with it for an arson scene I have planned.
• AsuCafe Posts: 557

  September 2

  After seeing the article, I immediately tested it, but when I opened DIM, I found it required at least 7GB, and my hard drive only had 11GB left...
• pixelquack Posts: 423

  September 3 edited September 3

  KindredArts said:

  pixelquack said:

  One thing that's hard to do is a fire in a series of images, be it candles, wood fires, trash in an oil drum, you name it - when you have multiple images it's static or you rotate, overlay duplicates, scaled etc etc. Doable but time consuming and only so credible. You end up post processing and feel like a fake. 

   I'm going to assume the "'@KA" is me, otherwise this will sound like shameless self-advertising. I had a product come out today called "VDB realtime" which let's you scroll through a series of VDBs. So the fire actually flickers and moves as fire should, instead of having to move through a series of stills. You can use the VDBs i supplied with it, or point it to a series of VDBs in a folder you already have.

  Yes, the message was indeed directed primarily at you for want of a DM feature here, so thanks for picking it up. I referred to that product, thoughwhat the promos tell me it's more an explosion effect unfolding here, and what I'm after more is a "normal" fire that burns along nicely. Think campfires. External VDBs can be used with your product, I did not realize that. Alright. Next step: learn how to create VDB fires.

  Post edited by pixelquack on September 3