Title: Better luck next time
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I also had some struggles with the smoke sim. For instance, whenever I changed properties, like, for example, the color, it would not show an effect in the viewport or render. After numerous tries, I found out that it would only accept property changes when done in the shading tab…
I don’t know if that’s the way it is meant to be 
Anyway, the smoke and fire in your picture look pretty convincing, I’d say.
thanks, I know what you mean. Every time you change one setting, all the the others need changing too. It’s like a rubik’s cube, but janky.
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BA Fleamarket: A lot of broken stuff over here:
Take your pick!
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Every time you make some changes to gas properties, change the resolution divisions in settings too , it will reload simulation 
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Yes 
Placing the flying knives, spoons, plates and glasses and imagining how they would twirl around when the ball hits the table was the most fun part of the scene 
I was too lazy to animate / time the parts and I did without the “motion blur” effect on it. I had at least an hour of fun manually placing and rendering the parts differently over and over again. Which fortunately only takes about 20-40 seconds per render 
Back when I was still doing all this with PovRay many, many years ago (in pre-Blender times) this fun-part would have cost weeks of rendering time 
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Thank you, I hope I remember that when I do the next smoke simulation 