I recently visited the wondertouch.com and I discovered a cool particle generator (Particle Illusion 3) capable to produce smoke, fire, explosions, sparks, etc. and Im wondering if is around here a more inexpensive program alternative able to produce the same efects?
Hi
from memory PI is a 2-D particle app, not a 3D particle solution. 3D world gave away a free SEW version of RealFlow and very good 3D part and fluid sim app, and most compositors like AFX, Shake and combustion have good 2D particle engines. Even Wax (which is free on Windoze) has pretty good particles. The was also something which I think was called flow…
However. tro make really convincing explosions, smoke etc… you really need a 3d volumetric particle engine (like LW’s voxels), so you’re probably better off lobying for volumetrics in Blender, or training yourself on how to fake them…